[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#601314: Bug#601314: please allow adding extra devices to conf.d/cryptsetup in your hook script

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

sorry for not coming back to you earlier.

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:05:17PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> On 27/02/2011 Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 04:12:07PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > > To be honest, this sounds like a rather special setup to me.
> > 
> > It is special, but very useful. Nobody uses it because it is so hard
> > to do.
> > 
> > > Your setup sounds like a keyscript would be the perfect solution for
> > > you. Why not simply write a keyscript which does all preliminary steps
> > > and outputs the key?
> > 
> > Because the cryptsetup initramfs tools do a very good job interacting
> > with plymouth, which would have to be reimplemented in the keyscript.
> 
> I guess this is not necessary if you use askpass for interactive
> passphrase prompting in your keyscript. askpass has support for usplash
> and plymouth.

Guessing that you mean /lib/cryptsetup/askpass, is askpass's interface
documented? It doesn't seem to have a man page.

Greetings
Marc

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