[Bug 377449] New: Create addition to scrub (Secure Delete) HDD devices with the Hardware Catagory of Yast OR from Install Media Menu .
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 Summary: Create addition to scrub (Secure Delete) HDD devices with the Hardware Catagory of Yast OR from Install Media Menu. Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Usability AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer It is taken for a given that it is almost impossible to scrub a HDD so that it cannot be reconstructed. Suggest Addition of a Secure Erase tool in Yast. I am hesitant as suggest its placement in Yast and could be easily transferred to the Install Menu From Source CD/DVD which I tend to lean against more. I suggested Yast only as it requires root access and needs to be kept secure from users, however putting this option on an Installation CD/DVD Media might achieve a better security and a more easily constructed secure erase app. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 Robert Vojcik <rvojcik@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rvojcik@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |locilka@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 Lukas Ocilka <locilka@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|locilka@novell.com |jsrain@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c1 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2009-01-05 05:50:17 MST --- I really don't see what erasing a disk has to do with installation. It does not belong to installation media menu. If you need to securely delete a data or file, why don't you just call several times dd if=/dev/random of=/device/you/want/to/erase or (even easier) use tools which are available for secure deleting of files (e.g. shred, which is part of the distro)? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c2 Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX | --- Comment #2 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-01-05 13:39:55 MST --- I had not suggested that this be part of Installation - I had suggested that this be a part of Yast. Our .MIL and .GOV users, I suggest, would greatly enjoy the ability to scrub a HDD NOT a partition as this is part of retiring and old piece of Hardware or re-assign it to a different user. Currently our friends just insert a CD and activate a separate program to scrub a HDD. It mean they have to carry it around in their hand to perform. I just thought this was so simple and we could provide this in Yast under the Misc category. It was intended to be a convenient tool that any industry could use that requires data security - and thats a big audience/user base. I thought it would be so very simple to add this to Yast/Misc catagory. Please re-consider - re-open to default -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c3 Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jsrain@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Status|REOPENED |NEW --- Comment #3 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-01-05 13:40:20 MST --- I had not suggested that this be part of Installation - I had suggested that this be a part of Yast. Our .MIL and .GOV users, I suggest, would greatly enjoy the ability to scrub a HDD NOT a partition as this is part of retiring and old piece of Hardware or re-assign it to a different user. Currently our friends just insert a CD and activate a separate program to scrub a HDD. It mean they have to carry it around in their hand to perform. I just thought this was so simple and we could provide this in Yast under the Misc category. It was intended to be a convenient tool that any industry could use that requires data security - and thats a big audience/user base. I thought it would be so very simple to add this to Yast/Misc catagory. Please re-consider - re-open to default -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c4 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jsrain@novell.com --- Comment #4 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2009-01-06 01:17:51 MST --- One can use the shred tool even to securely clean whole disks, not only partitions -- see its man page. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c5 --- Comment #5 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-01-06 14:18:06 MST --- Its a bit more complex that #4 I see the secure tool in Yast>Misc being just a little more complex 0. Define which devices secure delete applies to - HDD? CD? DVD? RAM Stick? 1. Command to secure delete the chosen devices that can be effected. 2. To Permit secure delete of device irrespective of encrypted partition on a device or any other read only device so specified in 0 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chrubis@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |aj@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 User aj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c6 Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #6 from Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> 2009-02-13 06:59:22 MST --- These are interesting ideas but we will not implement these ourselves for now. But if anybody enhances YaST for this, I'm sure the YaST developers will accept the contribution. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c7 --- Comment #7 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-02-14 13:24:52 MST --- Pitty - As the whole US .MIL is a pure RedHat user where Linux is chosen. I was trying to show that we too can provide functions specific for any .MIL or .GOV Marketplace -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 User aj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c8 --- Comment #8 from Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> 2009-02-16 02:47:07 MST --- Scott, .MIL/.GOV is not a direct target for openSUSE. The feature is usefull indeed and as I've said, if somebody implements this, I'm fine to take it - but I'm not putting Novell resources on implementing it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 User alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c9 --- Comment #9 from Scott Couston <alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au> 2009-02-16 13:53:50 MST --- I totally realize this is very very low priority enhancement stuff and I thought any marketplace was a good marketplace - I also thought this would have been a very very quick thing to code. I am totally fine about your need to balance manpower over more serious issues - I coll with that I am sorry we cannot leave this as open for a later point in time when you are not this frantic with so many bugs. No Problems, No Contest. :-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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