https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449 Robert Vojcik 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 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c1 Jiri Srain changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain 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#c3 Scott Couston changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jsrain@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Status|REOPENED |NEW --- Comment #3 from Scott Couston 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 alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c5 --- Comment #5 from Scott Couston 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 User aj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c6 Andreas Jaeger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #6 from Andreas Jaeger 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 aj@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377449#c8 --- Comment #8 from Andreas Jaeger 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.