[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#914446: Bug#914446: cryptsetup-initramfs: Opening multiple drives with one password doesn't work without plymouth

[Guilhem Moulin]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 17:27:11 +0100, Mikhail Morfikov wrote:
> On 23/11/2018 17:20, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 17:09:24 +0100, Mikhail Morfikov wrote:
>>> Should the script be used when systemd takes care of opening the
>>> encrypted containers? Because it doesn't support those scripts.
>> 
>> Indeed, but systemd isn't involved at initramfs stage.  At this stage
>> unlocking is done by our own scripts from the ‘cryptsetup-initramfs’
>> package (against which you filed this bug).
> 
> So why when plymouth is installed, the system is able to use the kernel keyring
> without problems and hence successfully decrypt both of the drives with only one
> password?

Because plymouthd caches them, too.  See for instance
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/08/msg00031.html .

-- 
Guilhem.
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