[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#772943: Bug#772943: Bug#772943: Bug#772943: Bug#772943: cryptsetup: please soften cryptroot messages

[Jonas Meurer]

Am 09.12.2015 um 13:05 schrieb Jonas Meurer:
> Hi Holger, hi debian-desktop,
> 
> Am 19.01.2015 um 14:27 schrieb Holger Levsen:
>> On Montag, 19. Januar 2015, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>>> Any progress on that bugreport in the meantime? 
>>
>> nope, too busy with other stuff :/
>>
>>> It seems like cryptsetup
>>> will need another upload to jessie anyway. So if we've something ready
>>> to enhance the cryptoroot message then we could try to push that into
>>> jessie as well (after discussing with RMs).
>>
>> sadly not, thanks for thinking about this issue..!
> 
> Now that Jessie is released, I ping you again regarding this issue. I'd
> love to soften the disk unlocking prompt displayed by cryptsetup during
> boot process. So did you (or the debian-desktop team) come up with an
> alternative suggestion for the prompt yet?
> 
> At the moment, the prompt is as follows:
> 
>> cryptkey="Please unlock disk $diskname: "
> 
> where $diskname is:
> 
>> if [ ${cryptsource#/dev/disk/by-uuid/} != $cryptsource ]; then
>>         # UUIDs are not very helpful
>>         diskname="$crypttarget"
>> else
>>         diskname="$cryptsource ($crypttarget)"
>> fi
> 
> In other words, if $cryptsource starts with '/dev/disk/by-uuid/', then
> $diskname contains only $crypttarget, otherwise it contains both
> $cryptsource and $crypttarget.
> 
> $cryptsource is the source device name (e.g. /dev/sda1 or
> /dev/debian-vg/root or
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/b2629cd2-3565-48f6-910e-3ef091268491) and $crypttarget
> is the target device name as specified in /etc/crypttab (usually
> something like sda1_crypt).
> 
> Problem is, that both seem rather arbitrary to users who used the
> automatic partitioning by debian-installer. My suggestion is to drop
> $cryptsource completely and just display $crypttarget in the prompt.
> 
> Probably then we could improve the naming of $crypttarget in
> partman(-crypto) code from debian-installer and use more descriptive
> names like "system-disk"?
> 
> Any suggestions?

For now, I'll bring the passphrase prompt from the init script in line
with the one from initramfs. This is, all prompts will display "Please
unlock disk $diskname: " from now on. I don't have any idea on how to
further soften the message.

Cheers
 jonas


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