[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#740760: Bug#740760: systemd: timeout parameters in crypttab is ignored

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Pipes,

Pipes <pipex07 at yahoo.it> writes:
> photo @ prompt password
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/996823/IMG_20140309_180819.jpg
The prompt you are showing is from initramfs, this is before even
starting the boot process which the init system handles.

> and this
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/996823/IMG_20140309_181638.jpg
> after input password
This shows that you are using sysvinit, not systemd.

> I'm confused... I wrong to open bug for package systemd?
Yes.

So, the manpage crypttab(5) does not document a timeout parameter at
all. Only systemd’s crypt device support has the timeout parameter, but
that won’t trigger for devices mounted in the initramfs, since we don’t
use systemd in the initramfs (yet).

I’ll leave it up to you whether you want to move this bugreport to a
feature request for initramfs (to implement timeout=, though I don’t
understand the use-case) or whether to close the report.

-- 
Best regards,
Michael