Howto make Plymouth ask for a LUKS passphrase

Daniel Gultsch daniel at gultsch.de
Wed Nov 4 18:30:48 PST 2009


On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:00:30 +0100
Clemens John <clemens-john at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I´m using an encrypted /home partition on my Archlinux system and
> testet Plymouth for Bootsplash now. generaly it works fine.
> 
> But how can I make Plymouth ask for the passphrase to decrypt my 
> encrypted /home parition at bootup?

plymouth ask-for-password --command="/sbin/cryptsetup luksOpen ..."
should work. altough I've never tried this myself

cheers,
Daniel



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