Re: USB Stick, GPG and CryptoFS in a startup script

[Lars Ellenberg <l.g.e@web.de>]

/ 2004-04-28 20:51:50 +0200
\ Clemens Bier:
> Hallo Goswin,
> 
> Goswin von Brederlow schrieb:
> 
> >Clemens Bier <ClemensBier@arcor.de> writes:
> > 
> >
> >><snip>
> >>cannot open '/dev/tty' : no such device or address 
> >>Error: Password must be at least 20 characters
> >></snip>
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I think you need to redirect input from /dev/tty or /dev/console
> >explicitly or you need to setup an utmp entry first (like login would
> >do).
> >
> > 
> >
> Could you explain more precisely what you mean by utmp and /or explicit 
> redirecting?
> Looking at the line that starts with gpg, I try to redirect the input 
> from /dev/console.
> But I still ge the same error. I do also get a "cannot open '/dev/tty' : 
> no such device or address"
> if I insert a debug statement like 'echo "Debug" > /dev/tty' into my 
> script.

try
 gpg --passphrase-fd 0 < /dev/console

	Lars Ellenberg