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by patrakov 689 days ago
#2 is also something that a security expert needs to audit, so that booting an extracted stock recovery ISO (which has the kernel signed by the same keys as the real system) does NOT unlock the FDE.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/issue-with-automatic-...

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Right. But this gives a really nasty dilemma:

First, you need a recovery image to be rejected by the TPM rules.

Second, you need an updated image that you prepare yourself, or that the distro prepares, etc, that will respect your security goals (e.g. does not allow you to boot it and copy files off) to be accepted.

Maybe a mainstream distro could distribute a UKI that will unlock a disk and run that disk’s userspace with no safe mode, recovery mode, etc without a password, but I’ve never seen such a thing.