Hi Arbiel, I think you have some misunderstanding here: crypttab does not work for encrypted system, as it is on that encrypted system itself (catch-22). In order to have an encrypted system partition, you need some mechanism in the initrd to read your passphrase. What form that mechanism takes depends on the distribution you are using. My advice is to not encrypt the system partition itself, just all user and data partitions. An "evil Maid" attacker can get into your boot process anyways. Disk encryption really only protects against encrypted devices being stolen while not mapped (machine is off, e.g.). Gr"usse, Arno On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 16:57:33 CEST, Arbiel (gmx) wrote: > Hi > > I decided to use a 512-byte randomly generated passphrase to crypt my > system partition. I recorded this passphrase on a removable device (USB > key) and correctly wrote the crypttab and fstab files and updated my > initrd.img for all this to work. > > I am anxious now to replicate my passphrase on additionnal USB keys, in > case my primary USB key get lost or damaged. > > For some reasons, I cannot name all partitions where my passphrase will > be recorded with a unique label. > > I tried to write several lines in the crypttab file for defining as many > passphrase locations as necessary such as > root UUID=uuid /dev/disk/by-label/USBkey1/passphrase:x > luks,keyscript=/lib/cryptsetup/scripts/passdev > root UUID=uuid /dev/disk/by-label/USBkey2/passphrase:x > luks,keyscript=/lib/cryptsetup/scripts/passdev > and so on, but this does not work. > > I thank in advance anybody who can advise me on how to solve this issue. > > Arbiel > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- 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 If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
