Re: Many LUKS partitions

[Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:22:48 +0300 Salvatore Iovene
<salvatore@iovene.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:14:44 +0200 Andreas Janssen
> <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> 
> > - add the key to the luks-Partitions using cryptsetup luksAddKey
> > - make an entry for your stick in your fstab, e.g. /media/key
> > - copy the keyfile to the stick, e.g. to /media/key/keyfile
> > - change your crypttab to use the keyfile, e.g.
> >         usr-crypt       /dev/hda7       /media/key/keyfile      luks
> > - change CRYPTDISKS_MOUNT in /etc/defaults/cryptsetup to include
> > your USB stick, e.g. CRYPTDISKS_MOUNT="/media/key"
> > - rebuild your initrd using update-initramfs -u
> 
> Hi, thanks a lot, that worked very well. Just a note: the entry for
> the usb stick in fstab has to have the following options:
> uid=0,gid=0,umask=277.

By the way, could you explain to me why the update-initramfs -u is
needed? Thanks.

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