On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 03:55:34PM +0200, elias r. wrote: > Am 10/21/2009 03:43 PM, schrieb Alexander Hall: > >elias r. wrote: > >>hum, nobody's got an answer? > >> > >>is there maybe a way via the shell pipelining to read the passphrase > >>from a file and write it to stdin? > >> > >>should this work?: > >> > >>bioctl -c C -l /dev/wd0a softraid0< pass.keyfile > > > >If will by default try to read it from /dev/tty, so you need to trick it > >not to. > > > >man readpassphrase > > ah, on thing i can think of is chmod'ing /dev/tty -r before and +r > after the bioctl command, but this seems really dirty to me?
It doesn't work, either. bioctl runs as root. Joachim