Hwere's what I've found so far looking at the askpass source code:
Askpass writes to stdout, asnd this is piped into cryptsetup in the
scripts cryptroot and cryptdisks.functions
When the cryptroot script in the initramfs calls askpass, there is no
underlying terminal to take the output from
to console, assuming I can find the bug in the source
code.
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:56:58 +
From: fritsch+launchpad@in.tum.de
To: lukek...@hotmail.com
Subject: [Bug 55159] Re: usplash prevents passwords from being not echoed on
the console
Luke, use apt-get source cryptsetup
Luke lukek...@hotmail.com writes:
What source package contains the source code for the askpass.c binary? I
wanted to give this a try but never found the source of askpass.c
look in the cryptsetup, it should be in the debian/ directory. It is a
program contributed by the debian packager.
--
I could not find a debian directory in either the cryptsetup
1.0.6.orig.tar.gz source package, nor in the cryptsetup 1.0.6-7ubuntu7_i386.deb
Debian package, which does contain the 4 byte debian-binary file. The only
other things named Debain I found were things like the news.debian.gz
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=mwCZ
-END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:00:49 +
From: oxmo...@gmail.com
To: lukek...@hotmail.com
Subject: [Bug 55159] Re: usplash prevents passwords from being not echoed on
the console
Luke : Thanks for your great work. Unfortunately I get
/W0AhsMAAoJEKthnTcjVMOiQBYAnjqEF54U0HUdJ3JE
oYo/l5t7j7RRAJ98TzjlIc1pGxlnWBE91IIUq4FzZA==
=mwCZ
-END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:00:49 +
From: oxmo...@gmail.com
To: lukek...@hotmail.com
Subject: [Bug 55159] Re: usplash prevents passwords from being not echoed on
the console
Luke
good question.
Btw, does the problem only occur when you switch the VT at the usplash
password prompt, or is the password echoed also without any VT switch?
--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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usplash prevents passwords from being not echoed on the console
Saïvann Carignan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The attached patch reverses last changes uploaded with cryptsetup
1.0.6-6ubuntu1 and break usplash again. This is a temporary workaround
to patch the security issue until a fix which safely permits the use of
usplash is developed.
Well, it does not
