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Bug#296464: initrd-tools: Asks for a password phrase for crypted disks with r andom keys



Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.77
Severity: important

At the moment I use only crypted swap space with keys read from
/dev/random.
mkinitrd creates an initial ramdisk, which ask my for a password to
start the crypted device. But this password should read from
/dev/random.

There is also a second problem thru the early initializing of the crypt
device for the swap space. /etc/init.d/cryptdisk (package> cryptsetup)
find a running crypt device and don't call mkswap and the system runs
without swapspace.

-- /etc/crypttab
# <target device> <source device> <key file> <options>
cs1     /dev/hda2       /dev/random     swap

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-ac12
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  cpio                          2.5-1.2    GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  cramfsprogs                   1.1-6      Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii  dash                          0.5.2-1    The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  util-linux                    2.12-10    Miscellaneous system utilities

-- no debconf information




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