> Hi, > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 01:00:46AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > Indeed, it was easy :-) - as of 4.0~beta2+experimental17 you should be able > > to > > use > > > > luks:"Your passphrase" / ... > > > > instead of just "luks" to get a device encrypted with the passphrase of your > > choice. The crypttab then has "none" for the keyfile name, which should > > make it > > ask you for a passphrase at bootup. Big fat WARNING: this is untested, but > > testing would be much appreciated :-) > > it seems that the implementation is wrong. I can see from the log that > it uses the passphrase to generate a key file. That is not right. > Unfortunately I see the dillemma. You either have to specify a keyfile > to luksFormat or enter the passphrase on generation, which will not work > without using expect or something. >
[...] Hmm, I thought that using the keyfile just meant "read key from this file" - can you just briefly confirm that this is not the case, i.e., using a keyfile is something totally different from using a passphrase? Thanks a lot, Michael
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