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From: Carles Pina i Estany <car...@pina.cat>
Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2018 8:47 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered
Hi,
I have a Debian Stretch and recently I added a new cyphered partition.
All works well but I don't understand why and it's bothering me.
Setup:
$ cat /etc/crypttab
m2_root_crypt UUID=4e655198-a111-... none luks,discard
m2_swap_crypt UUID=56485640-8a04-... none luks,discard
ssd_dades_crypt UUID=8d1d855d-17a7-... none luks,discard
All three partitions have the same passphrase.
On restart I'm asked for two passwords:
m2_root_crypt
m2_swap_crypt
The question is:
"Please unlock disk m2_root_crypt:"
I expcted to write the password three times.
My only theory is that after the root partition is decyphered it's also
mounted and then systemd-ask-password is used somehow (how?) and
--keyname= is used to "Configure a kernel keyring key name". I haven't
tested or seen scripts that do this.
I'm reading initrd scripts/local-top/cryptroot and bin/cryptoot-unlock
(where I can see the string "Please unlock disk") and I don't see
anything like this happening. Maybe initrd lib/cryptsetup/askpass is
doing it?
A question would be:
a) How to enter the passphrase only once?
b) When/where (scripts) and how is the passphrase stored?
This is just to know as the system is working perfectly.
Thanks for reading all of this!
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Carles Pina i Estany
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