[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd, luks and retry

[Jeremy Katz]

On Friday, March 13 2009, Williamson Grant said:
> Will a livecd use /etc/crypttab if the file exists?

Yes

> Creating a 8gb liveusb with --home-size-mb 2048 --overlay-size-mb 2048, 
> works fine. However I would like
> to increase the number of passwords attempts allowed.
> I seem to be having no luck increasing the default password retry from 3 
> on the encrypted home directory.
> Formating using -T x or adding retry=x seem to leave the default at 3.

The default with an encrypted /home is that we use plymouth to prompt
which is also the behavior now in the real system.  And I don't think
that plymouth has any way to request retrying more than 3 times

Jeremy