On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 11:52 AM Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2026-07-06 16:11:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > But if I do > > > > cat file | ssh -T ... > > > > where "file" is a text file just containing the passphrase, > > I get an error: > > > > X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 > > Please unlock disk nvme0n1p3_crypt > > cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? > > > > What could be the cause? > > I've eventually found the issue. This is due to the newline character > after the passphrase, which cryptroot-unlock doesn't remove! I could > confirm with "echo -n <passphrase> | ssh ...", which works. > > I've reported the bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1141580 > > (I thought I had tried with "printf %s <passphrase>" earlier, > but I may have made a mistake in my test.)
It feels like something like IFS=$'\n\0' should be used somewhere, but I guess not. Jeff
