[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#996181: cryptsetup-initramfs: Unable to use keyfile to decrypt rootfs

[Mateusz Jończyk]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 22:28:31 +0200 Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk at o2.pl> wrote:
> Package: cryptsetup-initramfs
> Version: 2:2.3.5-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Hello,
>
> Currently, it is not possible to use a keyfile to decrypt the root file system. I would like to use such a setup, so I'm attaching a short patch for
crypttab to make this work.
>
> The root filesystem may reside on more then one LUKS volume and it is cumbersome to type the password twice on each boot. I'm using such a setup: I
have two drives in my laptop: on each one of them I have an encrypted LUKS partition, on every LUKS partition I have several LVM logical volumes. Two
of these logical volumes (one from every physical drive) are setup in a RAID1 array, on which my rootfs resides.
>

Hello,

Please close this bug report. The setup I used to use is weird and not supported in Debian (at least Debian installer does not allow creating
partitions this way).

Please excuse me for letting this bug report hang for so long.

Greetings,

Mateusz