Hi Guilhem,
I agree, the concept of dropbear-initramfs creating the root directory
and /etc/passwd also seemed a bit weird to me.
However, the intended purpose of my patch was to first and foremost fix
the reproducibility bug, and not change the general process of root
directory creation.
Would you be open to a two step approach like this:
1. fix the reproducibility bug
2. improve the root directory creation process (I can create another bug
to track this)
Best regards
Yannik
On 20.11.23 09:43, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
Control: retitle -1 dropbear-initramfs makes initramfs non-reproducible
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tag -1 - patch
Hi,
On Sun, 19 Nov 2023 at 15:45:22 +0100, Yannik Sembritzki wrote:
One solution would be to simply always use /root-dropbear-initramfs.
I'm not in favour of that solution, as ~root doesn't belong to
dropbear-initramfs. I think it would be best if the root user and its
homedir were created by initramfs-tools itself; failing that it could be
created by another directory hook outside src:dropbear (possibly your
own custom hook), and dropbear-initramfs's hook could use that.
