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

[Jonas Meurer]

Hey,

On 27/02/2011 Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.

I guess this is not necessary if you use askpass for interactive
passphrase prompting in your keyscript. askpass has support for usplash
and plymouth.

greetings,
 jonas
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