Hey Marc, On 04/04/2011 Marc Haber wrote: > 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.
The interface is as easy as 'askpass PROMPT'. That's what it tells you, if you invoke it without arguments. But I just added a note about askpass to README.Debian. Do you agree, that the bugreport can be closed with the next upload? greetings, jonas
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