On 22 Apr 2017 12:38 +0100, from dominic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dominic Raferd): > Hi Michael, I'm not sure I understand your situation. In my case, if the > script doesn't find that cryptroot has terminated i.e. the user entered the > right passphrase (after 3 tries) it just ends and drops the user back to > the busybox prompt - or if it has been run as a single line command from > the remote machine, it would return to the remote machine. Either way the > user can just repeat the action because the booting machine will sit and > wait indefinitely for the root system to be unlocked - I think. With remote > access and pushing the passphrase straight into /lib/cryptsetup/passfifo I > don't think there is any fundamental limitation on the number of attempts > that can be made. Good point, I might have misread somewhere; I had the impression that your script ran automatically during boot, not as a user-initiated action. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@xxxxxxxxxxx “People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup) _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt