Persistent certificate metadata storage

[Darth-NullVortex]

Hallo,

I have not been able to find any documentation on how to persistently store the certificate metadata (customer, site, technician, etc.) in ShredOS. Is there already a recommended way to configure this, for example via config files on the boot device?

Since ShredOS can already store the certificates themselves persistently on the boot medium, would it be possible to add a similar option for the related metadata as well? Having these fields loaded automatically on boot (with the option to adjust them per job) would make repeated use much easier and reduce errors.

Cheers

[PartialVolume]

Depending upon how you are booting, ShredOS/nwipe already stores customer lists, selected customer and organisation details.

Assuming you are booting from a USB stick and importantly it's formatted as either exfat, fat16 or fat32 (as described by fdisk) then any changes you make when you go into the config screen ( press c on drive selection screen) will be saved to the USB device in /etc/nwipe/nwipe.conf and /etc/nwipe/nwipe_customers.csv

When ShredOS boots it looks for the USB boot disc and retrieves nwipe.conf and nwipe_customers.csv

/etc/nwipe/nwipe.conf

Organisation_Details : 
{
  Business_Name = "WipeThatDisk.com";
  Business_Address = "ServerCity";
  Contact_Name = "S.H. REDOS";
  Contact_Phone = "001 768 7736 398 888";
  Op_Tech_Name = "PartialVolume";
};
PDF_Certificate : 
{
  PDF_Enable = "ENABLED";
  PDF_Preview = "ENABLED";
  PDF_tag = "DISABLED";
};
Selected_Customer : 
{
  Customer_Name = "Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM)";
  Customer_Address = "Albuquerque";
  Contact_Name = "Jimmy McGill";
  Contact_Phone = "001 (505) 503-4455";
};

/etc/nwipe/nwipe_customers.csv

"Customer Name";"Contact Name";"Customer Address";"Contact Phone"
"Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM)";"Albuquerque";"Jimmy McGill";"001 (505) 503-4455"
"Not Applicable";"Not Applicable";"Not Applicable";"Not Applicable"

If booting via PXE with no local boot drive shredos will retrieve these files via the network if you have setup a tftp, ftp or sftp server.

A important thing to remember is that any changes to this data via the c (config) option screen, are only saved to USB or server when nwipe exits, when you select Y to the question Save Changes they are saved to local RAM drive in ShredOS. They are only saved to USB/server when nwipe exits. If running nwipe on a distro they are saved to /etc/nwipe/ after you confirm you want them saved in the menus.

You can manually edit the nwipe.conf and csv files but they require strict formatting as shown above. If you make an error nwipe may not retrieve the data. So it's often easier to setup the files via the C (config) screen in nwipe, press c on the drive selection screen to access config.

[Darth-NullVortex]

I edited both files and now it is persistent. Thank you!

[Darth-NullVortex]

Abort that. It worked. I deleted 2 machines and now everything is back to default and the files have been overwritten, even though the correct data was shown during boot, the certificate was filled with default values. I don't get it.

[PartialVolume]

Sorry, I somehow missed your post back in November. Is this still a problem or did you solve it?