On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:58:50AM +0001, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:22:37PM +0100, Jiri B. wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 02:22:35PM -0800, Chris Kuethe wrote: > > >Currently bioctl invokes readpassphrase(3) with RPP_REQUIRE_TTY, which > > >means that there must be a controlling tty to read the password from. > > >This diff adds an option (-s) to force bioctl to read the passphrase > > >from stdin. Without this option existing behavior is maintained. > > > > Hello, > > > > little improvement of bioctl(8), when using stdin it cannot be used > > for inital creation of the crypt volume. (there's same info for passfile.) > > > > jirib > > > > i think this is reasonable, though i'd maybe change the "It" to "This > option" (both here and -p). > > anyone else agree? > jmc
Yes. I agree. .... Ken > > > Index: bioctl.8 > > =================================================================== > > RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8,v > > retrieving revision 1.83 > > diff -u -p -r1.83 bioctl.8 > > --- bioctl.8 1 Dec 2010 19:40:18 -0000 1.83 > > +++ bioctl.8 21 Dec 2010 13:20:39 -0000 > > @@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ Read the passphrase for the selected cry > > .Pa /dev/stdin > > rather than > > .Pa /dev/tty . > > +It cannot be used during the initial creation of the crypto volume. > > .El > > .Sh EXAMPLES > > The following command, executed from the command line, would configure
