On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 17:44:31 CET, Milan Broz wrote: > On 02/18/2014 05:21 PM, Arno Wagner wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:33:49 CET, Richard Z wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 06:57:25PM +0100, Arno Wagner wrote: > > >> seems there are other ways to do it because on my Fedora 19 with > >> out of the box encrypted hard disk I do not see any prompt - just > >> an entry box without any text where I can type the password. > > > > Interesting. Can you find out what the difference is? > > The OP might want to know. > > BTW Fedora used plymouth (graphical and text boot frontend) > for password prompt, then it pushed password to cryptsetup directly. Interesting. > Recent versions use systemd, password prompt depends > on configuration (I think it can be still still plymouth) but unlocking > of disk is done by systemd itself (resp. system-cryptsetup > generator parsing /etc/crypttab translating it to separate systemd units). > > Unlocking uses libcryptsetup only. > IIRC in Fedora boot process there is no cryptsetup binary used at all. While I do not like that they do it, I think this is the right way to do it from c code. Of course it places all responsibility for the user interface on them. > I would suggest to ask on systemd or Fedora devel list if you want > to change prompt then. Probably the best first approach. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. - Plato _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
