[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#768407: Bug#768407: cryptsetup: dm-crypt disk unlocks on older Debian, does not on current testing

Jonas Meurer jonas at freesources.org
Wed Dec 17 13:31:42 UTC 2014


Am 17.12.2014 um 12:32 schrieb Quentin Lefebvre:
> To my opinion, the problem comes from Debian's askpass utility, as I
> tried to mention earlier. The point is that the function systemd_read(),
> which is used by default with a new Debian Jessie system, does not
> remove the trailing '\n' at the end of the input, while it should.
> 
> You can find attached the patch for askpass.c, which fixes the bug.

Hi Quentin,

thanks for the patch. Now I see that this is a systemd-only problem with
askpass.c, which explains why few people ran into it yet.

I'll incorporate your patch into the next upload, hopefully in time for
jessie.

Cheers,
 jonas



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