Ed Greshko wrote: > Robin Laing wrote: >> On 01/21/2010 08:32 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: >>> >>>> On 01/21/2010 09:40 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>> From: >>>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#crypto_LUKS >>>>>> >>>>>> Pass: rd_NO_LUKS to your kernel boot line. >>>>>> >> >>> What happens if you normally want a particular uuid to be activated on >>> boot...but there is a power fail and restore at 3am? Wouldn't you still >>> be stuck with a system waiting for the password when what you may want >>> would be for the system to come up without that device? Wouldn't a >>> rd_LUKS_timeout=<X seconds> make sense? >>> >>> >>> >> If a drive is encrypted, where do you expect to get the password from? >> > The keyboard via a person entering it... >> I am just curious because I have started to encrypt my drives and I have >> to enter the password on each boot. It is to ensure that the system >> cannot be accessed unless the password is entered. >> >> Maybe my concept of encrypted partitions is different than yours. >> >> > No, it isn't. But, you may have missed the beginning of the thread? > > The OP has some external encrypted disks that are not critical to system > operation. Other functions of the system are critical. The system is > configured to reboot when power is restored after a power failure. If > the system is unattended and an encrypted disk is attached the boot > process will wait for forever for the password until it proceeds. I > think you can see the issue should this happen at 3AM Saturday.... > > The suggestion of rd_LUKS_timeout=<X seconds> would allow the boot to > proceed *without* the encrypted disk being mounted. > > Where do you find the doc for this? I tried the man page for cryptosetup, which suggests the non-existant luks.endorphin.org, looked in the kernel source and kernel-parameters.txt file, googled for rd_LUKS_ and generally found nothing. The page at http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ has lots of usage for the setup command, but I don't see the options listed, and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#crypto_LUKS doesn't include this timeout option, either. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
