Demand for LUKS password blocks boot
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Jan 25 20:12:06 UTC 2010
On 01/21/2010 08:32 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
>> On 01/21/2010 09:40 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>>
>>>> From:
>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#crypto_LUKS
>>>>
>>>> Pass: rd_NO_LUKS to your kernel boot line.
>>
> What happens if you normally want a particular uuid to be activated on
> boot...but there is a power fail and restore at 3am? Wouldn't you still
> be stuck with a system waiting for the password when what you may want
> would be for the system to come up without that device? Wouldn't a
> rd_LUKS_timeout=<X seconds> make sense?
>
>
If a drive is encrypted, where do you expect to get the password from?
I am just curious because I have started to encrypt my drives and I have
to enter the password on each boot. It is to ensure that the system
cannot be accessed unless the password is entered.
Maybe my concept of encrypted partitions is different than yours.
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Robin Laing
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