On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 5:49 AM, James Lapthorn <jlapthor(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Good Morning,
I'm creating a livecd that will be used to securely send an encrypted
file over FTP and then poweroff. I have successfully built a minimal
installation using the provided kickstart and have secured the OS.
I now need to secure booting the livecd, by default the menu allows me
to edit the boot options and add things like 'init=/bin/bash' to gain
root access.
The issue I have is the isolinux.cfg generated by
'/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/imgcreate/live.py' only allows me to
modify the timeout by passing 'bootloader --timeout=1' in the kickstart
file.
Ideally I don't want a menu displayed and the default option to always boot.
I have hacked the live.py to include 'allowoptions 0' which prevents any
modifications but this is far from a good solution, is there a better
way of configuring isolinux.cfg
Many Thanks
James Lapthorn
SYSLINUX also provides TOTALTIMEOUT.
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#TOTALTIMEOUT_timeout
--Fred