[tpm2] Re: Installing on FreeBSD?

On 3/31/22 12:16, John Connett wrote:
> That's what I would have hoped. However, I've found several problems:
> 
>  1. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tpm2-abrmd
>     The line starting "desc=" breaks the script because of the un-quoted
>     multi-word description text value. Putting quotes around the text value
>     fixes it.

Right, that will be fixed soon.

>  2. /dev/tpm0
>     This has owner root. A temporary fix is to change the owner to "_tss" which
>     allows tpm2_getrandom to work. Not sure how the ownership and permissions
>     are supposed to be set?

Right, we are missing some udev rules here.

>  3. Hyper-V Virtual TPM not found
>     With FreeBSD installed on a Generation 2 VM on a Windows 11 host the Virtual
>     TPM is not found. Ubuntu installed on the same VM does find the Virtual TPM.

did you "sudo kldload tpm" ?

> Not quite as smooth as I anticipated. However, the problems are probably with 
> the packaging for FreeBSD rather than tpm2-software issues. I've copied this to 
> the maintainer of tpm2-tss for FreeBSD in case they have any comments.