[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#423102: cryptsetup: sorts crypttab before processing it

[Joerg Jaspert]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.4+svn29-1
Severity: important

Hi

next thing I think is wrong - it seems to sort etc/crypttab before
processing the entries in it. Consider a tab like the following:

swap1 device random swap
cfoo device none luks,tries=3
cbar device none luks,tries=3
swap2 device random swap
cfoobar device none luks,tries=3
swap3 device random swap

(Of course use real entries for devices).

In theory that should get first swap1, then cfoo and cbar, then swap2
followed by cfoobar and swap3 done.

In practice it goes and does swap1, swap2, swap3 and then the "normal"
devices.

Advantage of not sorting swap first but doing strictly in order crypttab
is written - if you have multiple devices using dev/random as input you
need a lot of entropy. You get that by typing stuff - like passphrases
for other cryptodevices.

-- 
bye Joerg
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