[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#850756: cryptsetup: Please save password to kernel keyring

Laurent Bigonville bigon at debian.org
Tue Jan 10 09:26:01 UTC 2017


On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:33:55 +0100 Christoph Anton Mitterer 
<calestyo at scientia.net> wrote:
 > On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 23:58 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
 > > Since gdm 3.22, there is a new pam module that unlock the gnome-
 > > keyring
 > > using the keyring using the password of the luks partition.
 > >
 > > The idea is that on a single user laptop, the user uses the same
 > > password for his encrypted root and user in addition to autologin.
 >
 > Don't think this should happen automatically... after all there are n
 > non-single-user-laptop scenarios, and while GDM/GNOME may be targeted
 > primarily towards only this scenario, Debian should not.

Well we need this to be integrated in cryptsetup if we want this to work.

Do you have any specific concerns about enabling this automatically? 
Anything in mind that might break?
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