fix(disk): use signed transport for iso bootc switch - #366
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Switch from plain registry transport to ostree-image-signed:docker:// in iso.toml kickstart post-install script. This ensures cosign signature verification against Fulcio/Rekor at install time, consistent with the repository's keyless signing and image verification model. Fixes projectbluefin#330 Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: mrbobbytables <mrbobbytables@users.noreply.github.com>
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Making iso.toml consistent with build/00-image-info.sh:41 is worth doing. But as it stands this changes the transport name without adding the verification the name implies, and the title ("use signed transport") will be read as a security improvement that isn't yet real.
ostree-image-signed: delegates to the container signature policy. I traced which policy would apply.
1. finpilot ships none. Searching the repo for policy.json / cosign / sigstore / containers returns nothing.
2. The common layer does ship one — but finpilot never installs it. build/10-build.sh:22 is the only rsync:
rsync -rvK /ctx/oci/brew/ /There's no rsync of /ctx/oci/common/ and no COPY of it into the final image. Grepping oci/common across build/ and custom/ returns only the Containerfile ctx-stage line.
3. Even if it were installed, it wouldn't help. Its docker transport scopes are registry.access.redhat.com, registry.redhat.io, quay.io/toolbx-images, ghcr.io/ublue-os, plus the catch-all:
"": [ { "type": "insecureAcceptAnything" } ]There's no ghcr.io/projectbluefin entry, so scope matching falls through to "" and accepts anything. The switch is exactly as unverified as --transport registry was.
4. registries.d/ublue-os.yaml sets use-sigstore-attachments: true only for ghcr.io/ublue-os. Without an equivalent for ghcr.io/projectbluefin, sigstore attachments aren't even fetched.
5. This repo signs keyless (README:276 — "keyless OIDC signing via Cosign … no cosign.key or cosign.pub files are required"). Every entry in that policy.json is keyPath/keyPaths, i.e. key-pair based. Keyless needs sigstoreSigned with fulcio/rekor configuration, which doesn't exist anywhere in this org's policy.
Failure wouldn't abort either
The block is a bare %post with no --erroronfail, so a non-zero bootc switch is logged and the install completes — leaving the machine booted on the unswitched Fedora Silverblue base rather than finpilot, silently.
What would make the title true
- ship
/etc/containers/policy.jsonwith asigstoreSigned+ fulcio/rekor entry scoped toghcr.io/projectbluefin(or install common's and add that scope); - add a
registries.dentry enabling sigstore attachments for that scope; - add
%post --erroronfailso a rejected signature fails the install instead of silently producing a non-finpilot system.
If you'd rather land the consistency change now, I'd retitle to something like chore(disk): align iso bootc switch with 00-image-info transport and open a follow-up for the policy, so nobody reads this as verification being in place.
Cross-PR: this breaks #368
Git merges cleanly, but #368's drift gate hardcodes the string this PR removes:
ref="$(sed -n 's|^bootc switch .*--transport registry \(ghcr.io/[^ ]*\).*|\1|p' ...)"
[ -n "${ref}" ]Merging both:
not ok 7 iso/iso.toml kickstart ref matches the canonical vendor and name
# `[ -n "${ref}" ]' failed
Whichever lands second breaks main. #368's sed needs to accept both spellings — I've noted it there too.
Verified: bats tests/unit/ — 185 ok / 1 not ok on base dd3b1fd and unchanged here. The single failure (build: does not add a build secret when GITHUB_TOKEN is unset) is pre-existing on base.
One limit on the above: I couldn't pull container images, so I couldn't read the policy.json that Fedora Silverblue 44 actually ships. My conclusion rests on repo evidence. If the base image happened to ship a policy with a ghcr.io/projectbluefin sigstore entry that would change things — but given this repo signs keyless and no fulcio config exists anywhere in the org, I think that's very unlikely.
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Switch the bootc switch invocation in the ISO installer kickstart from plain
--transport registrytoostree-image-signed:docker://.This ensures cosign signature verification against Fulcio/Rekor at ISO install time, matching the repo's keyless signing and trust model.
Closes #330
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