[systemd-devel] cryptsetup units are actuvated by default

Andrey Borzenkov arvidjaar at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 02:10:02 PST 2011


On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>
>> This also adds additional advantage by allowing to display file system
>> name in password prompt. Currently prompt is mostly useless - I have
>> on my test VM dozen of hard disks all with identical ID_MODEL - so I
>> have no way to know which one is prompted for.
>
> Yupp, this is a valid point. We probably should change our cryptsetup
> implementation to use the eventual mount point name if there is one and
> only fall back to ID_MODEL if we cannot figure it out.
>

At least, it should always show crypto container name as this is
readily available :) And hopefully user knows how they are called; if
not, we cannot do anything about it anyway.


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