[dm-crypt] crypttab standardization

[dm-crypt] crypttab standardization

[Matthew Monaco]

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

Re: [dm-crypt] crypttab standardization

[Arno Wagner]

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
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