[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#611897: Bug#611897: cryptsetup: tries should default to 0, at least for devices required to boot

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 00:11 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> for security reasons
Which are these?


>  and since cryptsetup upstream has a default of
> three retries
Well because upstream cryptsetup just doesn't have any direct support
for booting encrypted root-fs-systems.

I've just thought that change would be a convenience setting for those
users, where setting anything else then =0 doesn't make sense anyway.

Cheers,
Chris.
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