This implies they created their own salt file? That's probably a bad idea,
because it implies they don't understand what it's for.
On Nov 26, 2010, at 4:35 AM, Janne Johansson <icepic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As j...@freenode found out, the salt file needs to be 128 bytes (or
larger),
> but no part of mount_vnd seem to mention the size requirements, so if we
> require
> 128 bytes, then this diff should help people use salt files:
>
> Index: mount_vnd.8
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/mount_vnd/mount_vnd.8,v
> retrieving revision 1.17
> diff -u -r1.17 mount_vnd.8
> --- mount_vnd.8 15 Apr 2010 23:19:14 -0000 1.17
> +++ mount_vnd.8 26 Nov 2010 09:19:29 -0000
> @@ -206,6 +206,7 @@
> .Fl K
> is used, specify the
> .Pa saltfile .
> +Make sure the salt file is 128 bytes or larger.
> .It Fl t Ar disktype
> Specify a
> .Ar disktype
> Index: mount_vnd.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/mount_vnd/mount_vnd.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> diff -u -r1.9 mount_vnd.c
> --- mount_vnd.c 12 Apr 2010 01:44:08 -0000 1.9
> +++ mount_vnd.c 26 Nov 2010 09:19:29 -0000
> @@ -231,8 +231,9 @@
> } else {
> if (read(fd, saltbuf, sizeof(saltbuf))
> != sizeof(saltbuf))
> - err(1, "Unable to read salt file: '%s'",
> - saltfile);
> + err(1, "Unable to read salt file: '%s' "
> + "or salt file smaller than %d
> bytes",
> + saltfile, sizeof(saltbuf));
> }
> close(fd);
> }
>
>
> to test, create a less-than-128-byte salt file in /tmp named small, and go:
>
> # mount_vnd -K 1292 -S /tmp/small /path/to/some/file vnd0
>
> / jj@
>
> --
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