Am Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:35:06 +0300 schrieb Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx>: > I have 4 encrypted partitions besides root and don't have this > problem, but I have real passwords instead of ASK in /etc/crypttab > (otherwise I would be very lazy to enter them 5 times instead of > one :-P) It would probably be a bit more secure to write a keyfile onto a USB stick either as a file or with dd and apply one of those patches to /etc/rc.sysinit: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11648 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15016 And if you add one of these lines to your kernel line in grub's menu.lst then you don't need to enter one single passphrase. Just plugin the USB stick before and unplug it after booting. ;-) cryptdevice=/dev/sdaX:root root=/dev/mapper/root cryptkey=/dev/usbkey/KEYFILE cryptdevice=/dev/sdaX:root root=/dev/mapper/root cryptkey=/dev/usbkey:OFFSET:SIZE Heiko
