Bug#421693: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#421693: timeout option does not work with keyscript/key-file

[Alexander Zangerl]

On Wed, 02 May 2007 02:56:54 +0200, Jonas Meurer writes:
>i'm not sure why this could be needed. upstream cryptsetup knows only
>keyfiles and passphrases, keyscripts are a feature of the cryptdisks
>wrapper in the debian package.

upstream is supporting --key-file=- and explicitely mentions 
that in the manpage.

>if you use keyscripts, why don't you simply add timeout support to the
>script itself?

i can of course do that, but nothing in the cryptsetup docs hinted to
me that i would *have* to!

if you think upstream won't be happy to use timed_read() in the 
keyfile situation, please amend the documentation to tell people that
timeouts don't work with keyfile/keyscript.

regards
az


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