[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#487246: cryptsetup: manpage improvement

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

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

The crypttab manpage says:
       keyscript=<path>
           The executable at the indicated path is executed with the key file
           from the thirdfield of the crypttab as its only argument and the
           output is used as the key. This also works with encrypted root
           filesystems via initramfs if the executable is self-contained (i.e.
           not a shell script which relies on external programs not present in
           the standard initramfs environment).

Perhaps it should be added,... that this WILL work with
non-selfcontained scripts, when the executables are added to the initrd
via an hook (copy_exec is your friend).


Best wishes,
Chris.


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (SMP w/4 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                      2:1.02.25-1 The Linux Kernel Device
Mapper use
ii  libc6                        2.7-12      GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1           2:1.02.25-1 The Linux Kernel Device
Mapper use
ii  libpopt0                     1.14-3      lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii  libuuid1                     1.40.8-2    universally unique id
library

cryptsetup recommends no packages.

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