Wrong! -p option reads password from _open_ file descriptor 26, where 0 is stdin, 1 is stdout, 2 is stderr, and so on. Pointing -p option to unopen fd is equivalent to empty password.
Maybe you intended to do something like this:
losetup -k 128 -p 3 -e serpent /dev/loop6 /dev/sdb2 3</path/to/some/file ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
oh, well, --> what? who did such a thing to losetup? "reading from an open file descriptor", i guess it could not be made any more complicated.
hm, ok, now that i've got this it i found out that it was really set to an empty password. ouch!
the manpage of "losetup" said:
--pass-fd, -p num read the passphrase from file descriptor num instead of the terminal.
i was not familar to this "#</path/to/file" thing yet.
(undefined encryption?)
undefined == CryptoAPI
ah, ok.
Thank you very much for this quick response!
Christian.
Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxxx>
actually, sb. told me in a newsgroup to go to "linux-crypto", Jari will help :-) an he did! cool...
-- BOFH excuse #230:
Lusers learning curve appears to be fractal
- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
