What about killing cryptsetup before killing askpass? Regards, Arno On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:04:02 CET, chiasa.men wrote: > For the purpose of full disc encryption the tutorials usually suggest to > decrypt luks via usbkey. > The keyscript then often waits the key to appear for several seconds, after > that they fall back to the password prompt. > > If the key appears after the waiting time it is ignored. > > Is there a way to "step back" after the password prompt appeared? > > The current workaround is another process that loops for the key in the > background, decrypts the disk and kills "askpass" several times (resulting in > "wrong password" in the main process) > > What would be a clean way to implement the wanted behavior? > > As I understood, the keyscript has to print the key to stdout. > > I would expect the following keyscript construct to work as well: > > --- > while luksNotOpened > if [ -e key ] > dd if=key > sleep 1 > done & > > askpass > --- > The background process should still print to stdout and I guess askpass would > do the same when enter is pressed? > However that does not work > > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > https://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 https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
