On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:31:53AM +1000, Joel Sing wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 05:08:31PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 07:03:42AM -0600, Aaron wrote: > > > > > > It is possible if you use different partitions on the same drive, however, > > > you would have to run -P twice ( once for each volume ). > > > > > > > Sorry for not mentioning that I'm aware about the possibility of having > > several mini partitions on the key disk, one for each encrypted machine. > > Also, the -P switch in bioctl(4) has nothing to do with the creation of > > a key disk since the passphrase is generated automatically when invoking > > > > # bioctl -C force -c C -l /dev/wd0d -k /dev/sd0d softraid0 > > > > What I'm looking for is a way to have only one key disk partition for > > multiple machines. (Perhaps also a way to manually specify a passphrase > > in case of a lost/forgotten key disk, or a way to create a new key disk > > in case of a corrupted image. But I may be way out on this one..) > > There is no (easy) way of doing either of these things currently. Your > best option would be to create multiple partitions and have a keydisk > for each crypto volume, but on the same USB key/memory card.
Ok. Thank you, guys. I'll settle with that, feeling confident that functionality like this surely must exist on the sketchboard and will become features as projects develop. Reminder to self: start donating!
