[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#451909: Man page does not tell that you can also mount files

[Michal Čihař]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.5-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/man/man5/crypttab.5.gz

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Hi

as the crypttab parsing allows file to be automatically mounted over
loop, it should be documented in man page. 

The man page wrongly states: "The second field source device describes
the block special device that should hold the encrypted data."

I think something like "The second field source device describes either
the block special device or file which will be automatically mounted
over loop that should hold the encrypted data." would be more
appropriate.

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	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on:
ii  dmsetup                      2:1.02.20-2 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libc6                        2.6.1-6     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1           2:1.02.20-2 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.2.4-2     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libpopt0                     1.10-3      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libselinux1                  2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                    2.0.3-1+b1  Security Enhanced Linux policy lib
ii  libuuid1                     1.40.2-1    universally unique id library

cryptsetup recommends no packages.

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