[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#601314: Bug#601314: please allow adding extra devices to conf.d/cryptsetup in your hook script

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 04:12:07PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> To be honest, this sounds like a rather special setup to me.

It is special, but very useful. Nobody uses it because it is so hard
to do.

> Your setup sounds like a keyscript would be the perfect solution for
> you. Why not simply write a keyscript which does all preliminary steps
> and outputs the key?

Because the cryptsetup initramfs tools do a very good job interacting
with plymouth, which would have to be reimplemented in the keyscript.

Greetings
Marc

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