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Re: Enable rescue of systems with encrypted partitions
- From: Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>
- To: Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer <anaconda-devel-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: Enable rescue of systems with encrypted partitions
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:36:48 -0500
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:04 -0600, David Lehman wrote:
> Add support for rescue of systems with encrypted devices. A dict containing encryption information for all pre-existing encrypted devices is added to the Partitions object. Also added are methods to scan all disks for encrypted devices and prompt the user for passphrases. From there, code that scans devices for various information is modified to account for the possibility that any given device may be encrypted, using the information contained in the Partitions instance as needed to decrypt devices.
Looks good in general. I agree with Bill's partition->device comment.
Also, it might be nice to add support for entering a global passphrase
when creating encrypted devs also for consistency's sake
Jeremy
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