[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#502598: cryptsetup: passdev should be able to timeout when no device is found

[Evgeni Golov]

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

Today I discovered in README.initramfs.gz that there is a new keyscript, passdev.
It seems to be a really nice idea, but I think it misses an important option,
a timeout.

Currently I have an unencrypted / and LUKS-crypted /home and swap, the keyfile
for the later two is saved on an USB-stick. When I forget the USB-stick, I would
like to still be able to boot the box and enter a passphrase by hand (luksOpen).
This is not possible with passdev at the moment (I could ^C it, but that's not
userfriendly).

Could you implement a timout option?

Regards
Evgeni

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-x31-1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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                        2.7-15      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                    3.0.0-1    utilities for making and checking 
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92l      tools for generating an initramfs
ii  udev                          0.125-7    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

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