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--- porteus-kiosk [2017/09/20 16:55] – snarg
+++ porteus-kiosk [2017/09/20 17:05] – snarg
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+This page was created due to lack of sufficient documentation about the PXE Boot process on the official Porteus Kiosk web site. Porteus-Kiosk maintainers: please feel free to use my work to improve the official documentation.
 It is possible to run Porteus-Kiosk on machines with no local storage, booting via PXE. Config is retrieved from the pxe server over http during bootup. This is NOT possible using the official remote management feature, as detailed below.
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   * Boot continues normally (xzm modules unpacked and overlaid etc)
-Porteus-Kiosk settings are stored in the docs/kiosk.sgn file which is encrypted with an unknown private key. This was briefly investigated but the developer appears to have made the questionable decision to obscure this method. A head start to further investigations would be a string search for "first_run", "/opt/scripts/extras" and the /opt/scripts directory in general.
+Porteus-Kiosk settings are stored in the docs/kiosk.sgn file which is encrypted with an unknown private key. This was briefly investigated but the developers appear to have made the questionable decision to obscure this method. A head start to further investigations would be a string search for "first_run", "/opt/scripts/extras" and the /opt/scripts directory in general. @fanthom: please document this method in the open on the porteus kiosk web site documentation, so it can be properly audited. Security through obscurity is not security at all.
 === Porteus-Kiosk encrypted config file kiosk.sgn details ===