[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#509072: cryptsetup: change the "meaning" of passdev

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.6-6
Severity: wishlist

As I've explained on the mailing list, the same functionality that  
provides passdev as it's used now (just with normal passwords) is also  
interesting for most (but not all) keyscripts.

e.g. my decrypt_openpgp looks whether its keyfile-parameter ($1)  
contains a ":"
If so, it uses passdev to read the keyfile and stores it to some  
temporary file (vi mktemp), if not it simply uses cat to store it to  
the same file (that way I do not have to differ between the two cases  
in the following code).
(This btw: is also my motivation for bug #509068,.. to make it even simpler)

Ok,.. as you see, passdev is of general use and not just a keyscript.

I'd suggest the following:
1) Move passdev out of the keyscripts directory.
2) Specify that all key-scripts that actually read files via their  
$1-paramter should/must use passdev for this reading (and if #509068  
won't fix, differ between the two cases, with and without ":")
3) Change documentation to represent this stuff


Thanks,
Chris.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on:
ii  dmsetup                      2:1.02.27-4 The Linux Kernel Device  
Mapper use
ii  libc6                        2.7-16      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1           2:1.02.27-4 The Linux Kernel Device  
Mapper use
ii  libpopt0                     1.14-4      lib for parsing cmdline  
parameters
ii  libuuid1                     1.41.3-1    universally unique id library

cryptsetup recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cryptsetup suggests:
ii  dosfstools                    3.0.1-1    utilities for making and checking
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92m      tools for generating an initramfs
ii  udev                          0.125-7    /dev/ and hotplug  
management daemo

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