Re: Cryptsetup improvement

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On 16/10/2007 Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > At debian we already apply a simple patch which does exactly what you
> > suggested. It checks whether you are root, and exists with an error
> > otherwise:
> 
> With 1.0.5 at least superfluous:
> 
> $ cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdd2 fff
> mlockall failed: Cannot allocate memory
> WARNING!!! Possibly insecure memory. Are you root?
> Command failed: Can't get device information.

great. then the check for uid == 0 is useless.

greetings,
 jonas

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