Re: Many LUKS partitions

From: Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:22:48 +0300

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:14:44 +0200 Andreas Janssen
<andreas.janssen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

- add the key to the luks-Partitions using cryptsetup luksAddKey
- make an entry for your stick in your fstab, e.g. /media/key
- copy the keyfile to the stick, e.g. to /media/key/keyfile
- change your crypttab to use the keyfile, e.g.
usr-crypt /dev/hda7 /media/key/keyfile luks
- change CRYPTDISKS_MOUNT in /etc/defaults/cryptsetup to include your
USB stick, e.g. CRYPTDISKS_MOUNT="/media/key"
- rebuild your initrd using update-initramfs -u

Hi, thanks a lot, that worked very well. Just a note: the entry for the
usb stick in fstab has to have the following options:
uid=0,gid=0,umask=277.

Thanks again.

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