fai and cryptsetup

[Patrick Schoenfeld]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 01:00:46AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Indeed, it was easy :-) - as of 4.0~beta2+experimental17 you should be able to
> use

cool, thanks. I can build this from svn, right?

> instead of just "luks" to get a device encrypted with the passphrase of your
> choice. The crypttab then has "none" for the keyfile name, which should make it
> ask you for a passphrase at bootup. Big fat WARNING: this is untested, but
> testing would be much appreciated :-)

Yeah, I plan to test that tomorrow while I'm still on it.

> If you figure out how to make things work, please share your insights. Maybe we
> can add some code to FAI to make it work out-of-the-box.

I currently have some wild guesses I'm trying with. Hope to get
some more infos until tomorrow. Guess it won't be to hard to get it
running with FAI o-o-b if one of my guesses is true.

Best Regards and good night,
Patrick