[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#469869: Bug#469869: cryptsetup: Only prompts for passphrase for root filesystem three times

[Jonas Meurer]

On 07/03/2008 Sam Morris wrote:
> I often mistype my passphrase when prompted during boot up. If I do so
> more than three times, cryptsetup seems to give up, and the boot process
> continues--but without a device to mount the root filesystem from, this
> seems fairly pointless. It would be nice if it continued to prompt until
> I entered my passphrase correctly.

Hey Sam,

We're working on this issue currently. Please see bug #430158 for more
information. The plan is to use the tries option from /etc/crypttab in
the rootfs in initramfs as well.

greetings,
 jonas