[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] cryptdisks and password prompt

[Jonas Meurer]

hello,

i would like to start a discussion about the way /etc/init.d/cryptdisks
prompts for passwords. both #328961 and #304077 are bugs addressing this
topic. they make clear, that the current behavior could be improved.

at least #304077 is a non-issue for us (in my eyes), as both submitter
and maintainer came to the conclusion, that support for cryptsetup in
mount is the only real solution to that problem. i acknowledge this, and
i just sent a mail to bug #290324, asking what the status of this bug
is.

but in my eyes #328961 is still interesting, even when cryptsetup
support gets added to mount (util-linux). the case with the usb-kebboard
(explained in the bugreport) is still present, and i guess that a
countdown of some (configurable) seconds is quite a good idea.

what do you think?

...
 jonas