[SOLVED] crypttab not working

tripialos · 08-10-2013, 10:19 AM

Greetings, i am trying to autmatically unlock my luks partition but so far my tries have failed.

i have formated my /dev/sda3 partition with cryptsetup using the password mypassword.

i have setup my crypttab as per below but the partition is not unlocked on boot:

Code:

$cat /etc/crypttab
cryptpart        /dev/sda3        mypassword    luks

am i doing something wrong?

thnx

TB0ne · 08-10-2013, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tripialos

Greetings, i am trying to autmatically unlock my luks partition but so far my tries have failed. i have formated my /dev/sda3 partition with cryptsetup using the password mypassword.

i have setup my crypttab as per below but the partition is not unlocked on boot:

Code:

$cat /etc/crypttab
cryptpart        /dev/sda3        mypassword    luks

am i doing something wrong?

There are things you have to do in both crypttab and fstab:

http://evilshit.wordpress.com/2012/1...ition-on-boot/
http://www.howtoforge.com/automatica...with-a-keyfile

tripialos · 08-11-2013, 03:44 AM

oookeeeeyy

I thought you could just add the password to /etc/crypttab but as far as i understood, the only way implemeted i crypttab is to add the path to where the keyfile is located(which contains the password).

I did it and worked fine.

thanks