[systemd-devel] [PATCH] cryptsetup: craft a unique ID with the source device

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 29.05.15 15:45, Dimitri John Ledkov (dimitri.j.ledkov at intel.com) wrote:

> On 29 May 2015 at 11:17,  <harald at redhat.com> wrote:
> > From: Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com>
> >
> > If cryptsetup is called with a source device as argv[3], then craft the
> > ID for the password agent with a unique device path.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure why this is needed... if the device path is not good
> enough, there is also luks UUID header. In Ubuntu we display the full
> cryptsetup UUID in plymouth, but that's fairly cosmetic.
> If the path is not good enough, maj/min are a bit pointless and you
> really probably want the luks UUID then.

Harald actually convinced me now that this is useful indeed, simply to
ensure that if multiple invocations of systemd-cryptsetup using
different device aliases actually result in the same id used in the
password file.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat