Arch Linux

Description:

crypttab(5) says:

The third field specifies the encryption password. If the field is not present or the password is set to none, the password has to be manually entered during system boot.

I tried leaving the third field "not present" on an entry in /etc/crypttab, and on the next boot initscripts complained that I was using the legacy Archlinux crypttab format (though I was not), and then dropped me down to init level 1 to fix the fact that /etc/fstab listed a filesystem under /dev/mapper/ that didn't exist.

This isn't really a problem, since the fix was merely to change the third field in that entry in /etc/crypttab to "none", but anyways there is definitely a discrepancy between crypttab(5) and initscripts about what is allowed as the third field in /etc/crypttab.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

filesystem 2012.7-1
initscripts 2012.07.5-1
cryptsetup 1.5.0-1


Steps to reproduce:
1. Add an entry to crypttab that specifies only the first two fields, a configuration that crypttab(5) claims is allowed.
2. Reboot.