FS#21513 - [cryptsetup] manpage for is crypttab missing

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Michael Trunner (trunneml) - Thursday, 28 October 2010, 17:38 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 29 July 2012, 23:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
The manpage for /etc/crypttab is missing.

% man crypttab
No manual entry for crypttab

Steps to reproduce:
% man crypttab
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Sunday, 29 July 2012, 23:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Man page for crypttab exists at this time.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Friday, 29 October 2010, 03:53 GMT
There is no manpage for crypttab in the cryptsetup source tree.
So maybe this is specific to another distribution (who probably didnt bother sending it upstream)
And BTW the cryptsetup package doesnt have an /etc/crypttab file either.
Comment by Michael Trunner (trunneml) - Friday, 29 October 2010, 10:05 GMT
% pacman -Qo /etc/crypttab
/etc/crypttab is owned by filesystem 2010.09-1

I know that crypttab is not included buy cryptsetup, but I thought that is the right place for the missing manpage.
In crypttab you can do many things wrong and easily kill all your data. :-) So I think a manpage could help a lot.
Or at least a headline in the crypttab-file:
#<target device> <source device> [key file] [options]

But that doesn't explain how to setup encrypted swap and so one.
Comment by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Sunday, 09 January 2011, 19:29 GMT
trunneml: There is such a headline in the "/etc/crypttab" including some examples for setting stuff up unless you deleted them. Still, I think that a manpage would be nice to have :)
Comment by Jens Adam (byte) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 16:27 GMT
crypttab is not nearly as complex as rc.conf which has no manpage either, and I don't think they would need one.
The comments are already verbose enough.
Comment by Jens Adam (byte) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 16:30 GMT
That's the original, btw: http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/filesystem/trunk/crypttab
... just in case some funky install script left you with an empty one.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 17:29 GMT
I'm not against a manpage (for either rc.conf or crypttab). I just won't write one, so if you need one, then contribute it.

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