[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] [PATCH] Make cryptsetup ask the same password only once at boot

Jonas Meurer jonas at freesources.org
Wed Oct 8 21:24:21 UTC 2014


Hello Lubomir,

first, sorry for the long delay.

Am 12.05.2014 um 13:37 schrieb Lubomir Host:
> please, include the following patch into mainstream repository. This
> will ask password only once for multiple encrypted devices if they are
> encrypted with the same password.
> 
> This will same a lot of time for users with multiple harddrives.
> 
> https://github.com/lhost/pkg-cryptsetup-debian/commit/3b733b5cfefbdd7c67b5d36ebf5b1ee7b0bd2210

Thanks for sharing your scripts/patches. But actually this functionality
is already provided by the decrypt_keyctl keyscript. See the
documentation at /usr/share/doc/cryptsetup/README.keyctl for more
information.

Kind regards,
 jonas




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