From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.saout.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.saout.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R1j51AV_snKI for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:24:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from v4.tansi.org (ns.km33513-03.keymachine.de [87.118.94.3]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:24:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-74-163-71.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.74.163.71]) by v4.tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 23B5A205330 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:24:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:24:16 +0100 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20120313062416.GA6896@tansi.org> References: <4F5EE70A.10203@0x01b.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F5EE70A.10203@0x01b.net> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] crypttab standardization List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de Simple: Out of project scope. crypttab is necessarily distro specific, as it is part of the init configuration. Arno On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:19:54AM -0600, Matthew Monaco wrote: > Hello, > > Why does every distribution need its own solution for the /etc/crypttab format > and a parser to do useful things with it? > > Is there some reason why cryptsetup doesn't itself support mounting specific > targets or at least provide some utility like "cryptmount" which can handle this > file? ... and most importantly, a manpage =) > > -Matt > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@saout.de > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. -- Bertrand Russell