Re: Why is the chk_luks_keyslots tool not routinely included?

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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 16:09:56 CEST, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 29/03/2020 14:34, Jordan Glover wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 29, 2020 10:20 AM, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> I think that is a decision by the distros. I am certainly
> >> willing to maintain it for the foreseeable future. It is
> >> not really much effort.
> > 
> > The distros just do "make install" [1]. I think it's upstream who decides what this command does.
> > 
> > [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/cryptsetup#n39
> 
> My plan was to include this check in repair command instead of adding
> additional binary.  (The code could remain basically the same.)
> 
> With LUKS2 we can store other data in binary keyslot area (depends on
> type), so it need a little bit more work but it should not be a big
> problem.
> 
> Please report an issue for it, that helps to not forget about it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Milan

Perfecly fine by me, feel fre to re-use any of the code that 
is there as you see fit.

Regards,
Arno

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