Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.0.6~pre1-1 Severity: wishlist I've been very happy that the Etch installer supports dm-crypt out of the box. This is a wonderfully nice feature.
Here's my gripe: it gets in the way of unattended boots. Let's say that you have /home as a separate encrypted filesystem on a given machine. You want the machine to be able to boot even if you aren't there -- say because the power goes out or something. But you have a passphrase for /home. You could set it up with a timeout in crypttab, but here's the rub... when you do that, and the timeout expires, the boot process halts. You have to sit at the console and give the root password, then /etc/init.d/cryptdisks start, then proceed. In a case like this, it seems desirable to have the boot process not be interrupted. If the machine boots without /home, I could at least ssh into it as root and fix that problem. As far as I can tell, there is no way in the installer to indicate this preference, and no way in fstab to specify that a failure to find the crypt device for a given filesystem should just be ignored, leaving that filesystem unmounted. initially written about on http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/04/msg00071.html -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on: ii dmsetup 2:1.02.24-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.24-3 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libuuid1 1.40.4-1 universally unique id library cryptsetup recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]