From: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
To: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Passing luks passphrase from grub to systemd
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:25:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2907407.5HaPOCmciK@natalenko.name> (raw)
Hi.
> as I'm stuck with a (non-EFI x86_64) system with encrypted root
> partition, I have to enter the passphrase twice (grub needs it for
> getting the kernel etc., systemd needs it for mounting the root
> partition). This can be quite inconvenient, especially if the passphrase
> is long and contains special characters, and grub assumes a different
> keyboard layout.
Just fill another LUKS slot with a randomly generated key file and add that
file to your initramfs (which already resides on encrypted /boot, right?). If
your distro cannot do that, you should probably fixing things there, not
adding ugly hacks to the kernel.
Check how it is implemented in Arch, for instance [1]. I'm not sure whether
this is currently possible with openSUSE, though.
Regards,
Oleksandr
[1] https://klmlinks.wordpress.com/2016/03/
next reply other threads:[~2018-04-15 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-15 22:25 Oleksandr Natalenko [this message]
2018-04-16 0:11 ` [RFC] Passing luks passphrase from grub to systemd Hansjoerg Lipp
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2018-04-15 19:06 Hansjoerg Lipp
2018-04-15 22:35 ` Gabriel C
2018-04-15 23:21 ` Hansjoerg Lipp
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