[Freedombox-discuss] [Freedom Box] Finding your FB box on the network

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:47:13PM +0000, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> I briefly proposed in an earlier post to implement a special 
>> "handshake" in the FreedomBox boot process.  Such routine could be 
>> added to the installer too - which means that handshake could be made 
>> to not require internet access, and thus be possible with a 
>> cross-over ethernet cable directly between the box and its user.
>>
>
>How about something a bit more low-tech?  Plugs should ship with 
>passwords printed on stickers on the bottom, just like wifi routers do.

Why "should" they?

I can imagine how uniquely generated passwords will be a burden on 
distribution, thus raising the street price.  Or worse: distributors 
cheat and silently reuse same ISO on multiple devices.


>It just needs to be easy to generate/embed a unique random password 
>each time the base image is installed. And easy for the user to change 
>it afterwards. For people installing from some other media, it might 
>make sense to write a tool which maniuplates the .iso image before it's 
>burnt, embedding the password that way.

I fail to understand why it is so much more "easy" to autogenerate a 
unique key at ISO build time compared to doing it at install time.


  - Jonas

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