On 09/18/2014 02:29 AM, frodowiz wrote:
> i have been to so many forums to find a solution to this. all the
> variations are confusing me and none are working. 
> i am trying to pipe a passphrase to cryptsetup using yad. 
>
>  pass1=`yad --form --title="Enter container passphrase" --height=50
> --width=350 --field=Password:H`
>
> then i strip out the pipe character present between yad variables
>
> pass="${pass1//|}"
>
> at this point the variable pass appears to be exactly what i want.
>
> later on i invoke cryptsetup with the passphrase variable piped to it. 
>
> echo "$pass" | cryptsetup --cipher aes-xts-plain --key-size 512 --hash
> sha512 --iter-time 5000 --use-random luksFormat "$container" -
>
> after a moment, i see the device pop into the selection in my file
> manager then it dissapears. 
>
> the funny thing is, i wrote a terminal only version using the same
> methods minus the yad things and it works fine(see attached)
>
> terminal version requires 3 confirmations YES, passphrase, passphrase.
> do i need to reproduce these confirmations even with a minus sign at
> the end of the cryptsetup line?
>
> if so, would echo "YES"$'\n'"$pass"$'\n'"$pass"'\n' do this? 
>
> also, if i replace the echo "$pass" pipe with xterm -e cryptsetup....
> it works fine. basically, i am not getting the password format piped
> correctly. ive seen 7 different variations on this pipe and nothing is
> working. its probably something with spaces but i am resorting to
> email to lower my bloodpressure. also avoiding forums to lower my
> heart rate :)
>
> thanks to anyone reading this.
> Erik
>
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Hi Erik,

you want to use "echo -n" for piping the password without a trailing
newline and "cryptsetup -q ..." in your scripts to avoid any additional
user input.

Konstantin