reassign 502772 wnpp retitle 502772 RFP: tokentube - integration component for LUKS and PAM severity 502772 wishlist noowner 502772 thanks
On 15/03/2011 Jonas wrote: > Hello Josh, > > On 15/03/2011 Josh Triplett wrote: > > This bug report seems to have gotten closed based on an incorrect > > interpretation of the original report. Reopening, retitling, and > > re-requesting. > > > > The report makes the reasonable request that since an encrypted > > filesystem can have multiple passphrases associated with it, those > > passphrases could have associated usernames. Cryptsetup could then use > > the passphrase provided to look up the associated username, and provide > > that username to later phases of the boot process somehow, such as to > > GDM to allow it to select that username for autologin. Thus, the user > > would enter their passphrase to decrypt the disk, and not need to > > subsequently log in with a username and password. > > > > That seems like a reasonable request, and it should not impact system > > security in any way. > > I agree that this is a valid feature request. I'm not sure though > whether it should be implemented within the cryptsetup package, or in a > new package that uses and depends on cryptsetup. > > I remember that Jürgen Pabel developed something very similar to your > request called tokentube (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tokentube/) I > haven't checked it for years, but it seems like the project is still > active. > > Maybe you should take a look at it and rephrase the bugreport into an > ITP for tokentube if that's what you're searching for. rephrasing the bugreport as a request for packaging for tokentube as suggested. greetings, jonas
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