A feature opportunity (was: Autoreinstallation image is not signed.)

Mon Jun 2 22:46:18 EDT 2008

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Robert Myers wrote:
| An alternative idea, but it would take 2 XOs and a USB cable.

As long as the wifi hardware is working, you don't need a cable.  Even if
the system won't boot, OFW has a complete wifi network stack.  You could
implement this as a special key to hold down on boot, to enter recovery
mode.

Unfortunately, it gets fairly complicated if you try to make it secure and
wireless.  I could imagine generating a random password and displaying it
on the screen, but this requires a fancy password-protected fileserver,
and doesn't work if the screen is broken.

- --Ben
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