I have a work around which is to add timeout=90 It seems the timeout=0, which is the default) and is supposed to mean wait indefinitely) is now treated as dont prompt or wait at all. I cannot say if this is a change in behavior which is intentional and the man pages need to be updated (man crypttab) or a bug causing the change - but changing to use a non-zero timeout does now prompt for password. -- Gene lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx