Re: Booting with passphrase on USB key

[Dick Middleton <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Williams wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2008 22:31:58 Dick Middleton wrote:
> > > One of the declarations at the beginning of the usbluks.rr script states
> > >
> > > KEYDIR = /etc/keys but I do not have that file.
> > Create with mkdir and put your keyfile in it.
>
> Is my 'keyfile' a copy of the file on the usb stick? If not, what?
>
> Many thanks for your help and patience.

I think I misunderstood (misread your email).  This won't work for you; you 
haven't booted yet.  I was thinking you wanted to unlock a luks partiton on the 
USB stick when you plug it in.

I'm not sure how you do what you are asking.  You'll need to look at the 
cryptsetup web page to see if there's a solution.  Essentially you have to 
modify the start script in the initrd/initramfs file but I've not done this so I 
can't help really.

Sorry.

Dick


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