FS#19936 - /etc/crypttab should be automatically updated by the installer for non root encrypted filesystems

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by <disabled account> (nicolas) - Thursday, 24 June 2010, 00:53 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Monday, 26 November 2012, 04:46 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2010.05
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When you install using aif, you can chose to have non root filesystems encrypted.
However, these filesystems are added to /etc/fstab but not to /etc/crypttab.

As a consequence, when you reboot, you will get an error message telling you the type of the partition is not recognized.

This is written in the wiki to add this line to /etc/crypttab but only under http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_Encryption_with_LUKS_for_dm-crypt and not under http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide

A fix could be two-fold:
- at first, the install guide could have a line added to explain this
- this could be automatized in the install scripts
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Monday, 26 November 2012, 04:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Thursday, 09 December 2010, 10:14 GMT
the installation guide is updated.
http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/commit/?id=27202e211f99e1ea6c53bc165f040afa0e461796

I think a further improvemnt would be to automatically add the non-root encrypted devices in /etc/crypttab (but still make the user fill in the right options like 'ASK' and whatever)

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