[AG-TECH] AccessGrid on a bootable live cd (Knoppix) : certificate question

[Markus Buchhorn]

At 02:26 PM 3/08/2004 +1000, Joseph wrote:
>I've recently worked on putting AccessGrid2.2 on a bootable live cd called  
>Knoppix. 

Nice! :-)

>It works well, except for one last trouble : the certificate. In  
>fact, when I build the iso, I can't launch AG, so I can't configure the  
>certificate in the normal way before burning the cd. So, each time I boot  
>with my cd, I have to import a certificate (and define a profile).

One of the things we talked about a while back was a bootable cd for the OS/code and a USB memory stick (or flash drive, or whatever) holding the dynamic/writeable and user-specific data (like certs). So just give people a memory stick to plug in and boot off the CD. Would that work? It'd require some additional script tweaks I imagine to go look for the memory stick...?

Another option could be to look on the network for the data - booting off a CD or network image, and grabbing the data from some ssl-based service?

Cheers,
        Markus


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