I 'fixed' (since stty -echo didn't work) the password echo problem using this trick:
added echo -n -e "Enter password: \033[40;30m" before the $CRYPTCMD $PARAMS create $dst $src ... line and echo -n -e "\033[40;37m" after it it sets the fore+background color to black/black using an ansi color escape sequence and restores it to white/black using the same method afterwards not nice but works for me :-] -- Upstart doesn't activate luks volumes (also non luks) in cryptsetup https://launchpad.net/bugs/62751 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs