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Hi,
I'm having some trouble with an external USB-hard-drive that I want to be unlocked during boot automatically by a password stored into a file, but it doesn't work. The hard-drive can be mounted without problems manually. My desired behavior is, that the system continues booting if the hard-drive is not present or it unlocks it silently and I'm able to use it, if it is present, so I thought using "nofail" would be the correct option.
/etc/crypttab:
storage UUID=18345ef2-0de9-49cf-81e4-4b73c88ed3a0 /etc/storage.pw nofail,luks/etc/storage.pw: contains the password, has mode 600, owned by root.
/etc/fstab (partly):
/dev/mapper/storage /mnt/storage ext3 defaults,noatime,nofail 0 2I think the problem is somewhing with my /etc/crypttab configuration. Altrought I specified a path to the password, I see a message for prompting the password during boot, but systemd continues booting and takes me into my X session before I've got the possibilty to enter the password. Why is the password not read?
I've also tried this, but don't understeand the meany why my drive is "dead":
$ systemctl status mnt-storage.mount
mnt-storage.mount - /mnt/storage
Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab)
Active: inactive (dead)
Where: /mnt/storage
What: /dev/mapper/storageAny ideas?
Last edited by beachcoder (2013-10-31 21:45:07)
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Hey folks, a friend helped me with this issue.
I've created a new, random key, wrote it to a file /etc/storare.key and added it as secondary LUKS key to the device.
$ dd if=/dev/random of=/etc/storage.key bs=64 count=1
$ cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/sdb1 /etc/storage.key/etc/crypttab:
storage /dev/disk/by-uuid/18345ef2-0de9-49cf-81e4-4b73c88ed3a0 /etc/storage.key nofailSo I think the problem was in the keyfile that I created manually as text file. The new key, generated by dd, contains binary data and is taken so.
So long,
beachcoder
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