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From: Jan Janssen <medhefgo@web.de>
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To: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>, dm-crypt@saout.de



On 04/17/2014 08:27 PM, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 04/17/2014 08:12 PM, Jan Janssen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm experimenting with LUKS detached header and I had the problem that
>> cryptsetup binary does not like regular files when provided with
>> --header (both luksFormat and open). When I make a manual losetup with
>> the same header file and provide the loop device to --header everything
>> works fine.
>>
>> According to the man page, --header is supposed to work for regular
>> files too. This should either get fixed or the manual page be updated.
>
> Detached header should works with regular files.
>
> Can you provide more info what is not working? Please post failing command with
> added --debug and provide exact versions of cryptsetup.
>
> Milan
>

Sorry for the noise, I had a typo in the header file name.

Jan