[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] crypttab problem

David Härdeman david at hardeman.nu
Mon Aug 4 12:40:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:24:41PM +0200, Marco Gatti wrote:
>Using Lenny with an encrypted partition on a secondary disk the new
>version of cryptsetup doesn't work anymore with this line configured
>in /etc/crypttab:
>
>backup          /dev/hdb1               /path/to/file.key   hash=sha512

What is the size and permissions of /path/to/file.key?

Also, do you use LUKS? If not, it is a *very* good idea to add some more 
options like cipher to the fourth column of crypttab as defaults will be 
used otherwise and those defaults are subject to change...

-- 
David Härdeman



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