Hi to all Debian friends, I am posting my problem to this list since I am sort of clueless. I have the following problem: I have a dedicated partition which I use with cryptoloop (yes, I know dm-crypt is out there) and a AES cipher. Mounting and unmounting the partition works fine with all 2.6 Kernels. Thus I enhanced my setup by placing the key for encryption and decryption of the partition as a file on my USB Stick. I additionally symmetrically encrypt the key file with gpg. I have put all of this in a small shell script (see attachment). Using this script as root after the login works flawlessly. So, now we come to the point: When I integrate my script into /etc/init.d as one of the startup scripts, I get the following error message during boot time <snip> cannot open '/dev/tty' : no such device or address Error: Password must be at least 20 characters </snip> I have already put some debug commands into my script to do a ls on the tty device. This looks like the following: <snip> ls -al /dev/tty crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 Apr 27 21:29 /dev/tty ls -al /dev/tty0 crw------- 1 root root 4, 0 Apr 9 10:34 /dev/tty0 </snip> As far as I could figure out, the init script /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh sets the permissions on the tty device. I am still a noobie to Kernel internals. Thus I am not sure where to look for further clues. Thanks for any tips or hints. Have a nice day Clemens Bier
#!/bin/sh -e
case "$1" in
start)
/sbin/modprobe sd_mod
/sbin/modprobe usb-storage
/sbin/modprobe cryptoloop
/sbin/modprobe aes
/bin/mount -t ext2 /dev/sda2 /mnt/iriver
gpg --no-options --decrypt /mnt/key/key.gpg < /dev/console | /sbin/losetup -e AES128 /dev/loop0 /dev/hdb7 -p 0
/bin/mount -o defaults,users /dev/loop0 /crypto
/bin/umount /dev/sda
;;
stop)
/bin/umount /dev/loop0
/sbin/losetup -d /dev/loop0
;;
esac
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