[Fedora-spins] Not sure if this the right place os fedora-devel or just a livecd bugzilla.

[Daniel J Walsh]

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One of the things I had done was write a patch for livecd to create a
livecd that is "Non-Interuptable"  My goal was for kiosk type
environments to allow a machine without an operating system to only be
able to boot a livecd with root account disabled and no way to boot it
in single user mode or disable SELinux etc.

The patch I submitted allowed a ks file to use TOTALTIMEOUT=1.  On a
syslinux boot system this flag tells the system to boot withing .1
seconds and the user can not stop it.

The patch was rejected by Jeremy Katz (Probably Rightly so) for a couple
of reasons.

1.  It was syslinux specific.  It would not work for efi boots.
2.  It changed the syntax of kickstart, so packages like anaconda would
have to start supporting it.

I was thinking of adding a flag to livecd-iso-to * to setup
uninterruptable boots.  I think this could be done using the
TOTALTIMEOUT flag above for syslinux and by setting up a passwd in
grub.conf that can not be reached by MD5 for efi boot environments.

Is this interesting to any one else?  Do you think this is the proper
way to go?  Am I asking on the wrong list?
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