[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#430158: Bug#430158: Bug#430158: closed by Jonas Meurer <jonas at freesources.org> (closing because of inactivity)

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Jonas,

> > No. Testing takes time and I want to do that in one chunk. Furthermore I
> > need to rewrite the patch first. The patch doesn't permit an infinite
> > number of retries by setting tries=0. I'll tell you when I'm finished.

I verified that the attached patch works as expected.

> I object against support for infinite retries. Upstream cryptsetup
> doesn't support this, and I don't like to divert from cryptsetup
> behaviour in the initramfs scripts.

The feature doesn't hurt. It doesn't degrade anything.

> Even if initramfs stuff supports tries=0 for infinite retries, starting
> the mapping through /etc/init.d/cryptdisks will give you just one try.

I don't see a use for the initscript, but within initramfs it should be
possible to prevent booting without a password using tries=0.

If you don't want to take my patch, please clone this bugreport and tag
it as wontfix, upstream.

Helmut
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