[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] crypttab problem

Marco Gatti marco.gatti at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 21:51:52 UTC 2008


2008/8/5 Jonas Meurer <jonas at freesources.org>:
> On 04/08/2008 Marco Gatti wrote:
>> > 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...
>>
>> No, i don't use LUKS but i've tried to add the cipher option
>> (aes-cbc-plain) to crypttab file without any luck.
>> The problem came out after upgrading today to cryptsetup 1.0.6-4 and
>> i'm wondering why using the command manually without specifying
>> anything it works like charm...
>
> Hello Marco,
>
> Please try to remove/comment out line 385 of
> /lib/cryptsetup/cryptdisks.functions:
>
>        PARAMS="$PARAMS --key-file=$key"
>
> If I'm correct, then that should fix your issue.
>
> greetings,
>  jonas

You are right, now it works! Thank you!
Ok, so i'll be more carefull using the cipher option in the crypttab
file or using LUKS next time...

cheers
Marco



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