starting Fedora Server SIG
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 20:23:29 UTC 2008
Peter Robinson (pbrobinson at gmail.com) said:
> > Probably just about as well as setting up a passphrased-protected
> > encrypted volume worked before plymouth.
> >
> > Now, if you want to set it up to use keys from a file...
>
> Is it/would it be possible to take that from something like a smart
> card or similar of physical and removable device?
Not without breaking the current crypttab format - it currently
only specifies a path to the file, there's not a device:path syntax.
(TBH - I haven't checked that specifying a passphrase file works
for the root filesystem - it may be worth testing.)
Bill
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