17.12. Encrypting Disk Partitions

Benjamin Kaduk bjk at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 23 04:16:30 UTC 2016


On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, christian.djumlija at yahoo.de wrote:

> Hello freeBSD-Team,
> I believe there is an error in the chapter on disk encrpytion (geli-part).
> In the suggested edits to rc.conf, the flags contains -p."-p" means "do not ask for a passphrase", but the text above works with a passphrase. So this is inconsistent and will result in a broken boot sequence.
> Although the error was not too hard to spot, such recipes should give a consistent script to play along ... and avoid resulting in a broken system.
> Hope you agree and can fix this soon.Nevertheless, a very helpful section :-)

Good catch!  Thanks for reporting it; I have removed the -p from the
rc.conf snippet in r48243, which should appear on the live website in a
few tens of minutes.

-Ben


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