Michael .. wrote this message on Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:25 +0200: > Has anyone been able to achieve this? > > I installed FreeBSD 11.2 using AutoZFS option with encryption turned on. > Passphrase is specified as part of install. > > I want to switch to only a keyfile and no passphrase: > > geli setkey -K /boot/encryption.key -P /dev/xyz
If this is on your ZFS root that is encrypted w/ the key file, how do you expect to be able to boot the system when the keyfile you need to decrypt is encrypted? > This completes, but I'm still prompted for passphrase on boot. Nothing > appears accepted by the prompt (as the userkey is using only keyfile now?) > > Setting geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="NO" doesn't help. Well, the default boot I believe can only handle passphrase. You can look at this instructions on booting from a USB drive which can contain the key file: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/zfs-boot-from-usb.45880/ I don't think zfsboot (which is needed for ZFS root booting) can handle key files, because it needs to get the key file from somewhere, and it is a very small binary, and so does not have the space to load it from other drives... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." _______________________________________________ freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
