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On 7 May 2014 20:11:10 CEST, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:11:02AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote |
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>> On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 05:34:52 PM Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> > Unfortunately, mdev != udev. People running RAID have problems |
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>too. |
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>> I know it isn't. I just find it strange that LVM can't work without |
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>> udev when I see options which configure the LVM-tools to either |
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>> double-check udevs actions or even completely bypass udev: |
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> Thanks for the pointer. After turning off the udev-related options in |
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>lvm.conf, I'm getting /dev/mapper device nodes as expected. |
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That is good. Now if only mdadm can be confirmed to work with mdev. I could try it on one of my machines. |
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> I still |
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>can't get cryptsetup to work with LUKS, but it works fine *WITHOUT* |
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>LUKS |
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>as per instructions at |
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>http://sleepyhead.de/howto/?href=cryptpart#woluks |
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>In my case, the initial setup was... |
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>cryptsetup -y create usbkey1 /dev/sdb1 |
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>mkfs.ext2 /dev/mapper/usbkey1 |
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>mount -t ext2 /dev/mapper/usbkey1 /mnt/usbkey1 |
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>umount /mnt/usbkey1 |
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>cryptsetup remove usbkey1 |
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>...and subsequent sessions... |
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>cryptsetup -y create usbkey1 /dev/sdb1 |
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>mount -t ext2 /dev/mapper/usbkey1 /mnt/usbkey1 |
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>...do whatever... |
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>umount /mnt/usbkey1 |
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>cryptsetup remove usbkey1 |
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> The setup and teardown commands have to be done as root, but I've |
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>chowned /mnt/usbkey1 to waltdnes:users and confirmed that I can create |
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>and delete files and directories as a regular user. |
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The create and remove commands with LUKS also require root. They use a session manager in desktop environments to allow users to do it. Sudo with a secure wrapper script might be sufficient for you? |
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I was wondering. What is the actual reason why cryptsetup has a LUKS and non-LUKS set of options? |
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Joost |
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