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   Marsh Ray (marshray@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 09:50:54 JST Marsh Ray

   • Rich Felker
   • Anthropy

   @astraleureka @dalias @anthropy Checkbox where?
   Who is authorized to check it, and how are others prevented?
   How is the setting persisted?
   How does it interact with secure boot and disk/filesystem encryption?
   How do you troubleshoot and repair it when it’s [un]checked incorrectly?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 09:50:54 JST Rich Felker

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     • Anthropy

     @marshray @astraleureka @anthropy Exactly. It has to be part of the configuration within the guest, stored in the guest filesystem. It could be offered as a "checkbox" in the installer for the guest distro. But it should require explicit, distro-specific configuration, not just dropping a file in a standard place systemd checks or some bs like that. Or hosts would just start dropping that in.