RE: Remotely choose a menu entry

[Parmeshwr_Prasad]

Hi Daniele,

I will be interested to develop this feature. Please let me know if I can 
contribute into this.

-Parmeshwr

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To: The development of GNU GRUB; Andrei Borzenkov; Brugnara Daniele
Subject: Re: Remotely choose a menu entry

On 29.11.2014 17:16, Brugnara Daniele wrote:
> I am thinking about a secret key known from both sender and receiver 
> and encode/decode the packet using this, a strong algorithm, of course.
> 
Crypto doesn't work this way. By using weak algorithm your security is broken 
but if youre only difference from weak system is a strong algorithm, your 
security is probably still nil.
decryption doesn't guarantee integrity. For integrity check you need MACs or 
signatures. But even this won't help you for your case. Think of someone saving 
traffic for the choice of entry X and then simply replaying it. It will be 
valid for entry X.
> Il giorno Sab 29 Nov 2014 17:03 Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> ha scritto:
> 
>     В Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:10:28 +0000
>     Brugnara Daniele <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
>     пишет:
> 
>     > Hi all.
>     >
>     > I'm thinking about a system that boots with a wol packet. Who
>     sends this
>     > packet in 99% of cases, is far away from that computer and it could be
>     > useful to boot into a different system instead of the default one.
>     (please
>     > keep in mind that changing the default option in grub is not a
>     option for
>     > this specific use case)
>     >
>     > If a wol can be delivered successfully, an UDP packet containing
>     simple
>     > datas should be enough to achieve this.
>     >
>     > Something like this:
>     >
>     > - MAC: the destination device mac address
>     > - choice: a number (can be empty)
>     > - commandLine: a full commandline (a choice or this..)
>     > - more? I don't know for now..
>     >
>     > This option should be enabled in the grub.conf by the user.
>     >
>     > What do you think about? Could this be useful? Am I missing
>     something, like
>     > a tool that does this automagically?
>     >
> 
>     Yes, it could probably be implemented as a command that loops listening
>     for magic packet and then sets default menu option. Of course, you
>     would need to consider security aspects (who is allowed to send
>     packet, how it is authenticated etc).
> 
>     > I've read about an eth-to-serial but it's not what I want.
>     > PXE or bootp is not an option here. I don't want to manage another
>     > server...
>     >
>     > Thanks for your time.
>     >
>     > Daniele.
> 
> 
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