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Mandos Encrypted File System Unattended Reboot Utility

Posted Jan 7, 2009

Authored by Teddy | Site fukt.bsnet.se

The Mandos system allows computers to have encrypted root file systems and at the same time be capable of remote or unattended reboots. The computers run a small client program in the initial RAM disk environment which will communicate with a server over a network. All network communication is encrypted using TLS. The clients are identified by the server using an OpenPGP key that is unique to each client. The server sends the clients an encrypted password. The encrypted password is decrypted by the clients using the same OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to unlock the root file system.

Changes: Now tries to change to user and group "_mandos" before falling back to trying the old values "mandos", "nobody:nogroup", and "65534". Does not abort on startup even if no clients are defined in clients.conf. Other improvements and changes.

tags | remote, root

systems | linux

MD5 | 4f0d7b541e6908ca87944a612866cdec

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