Using GPT labels in rc.conf's geli_devices and geli_flags

Chris Stankevitz chris at stankevitz.com
Fri Sep 30 15:02:47 UTC 2016


On Sep 30, 2016, at 12:28 AM, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:05:53 -0700
> Chris Stankevitz <chris at stankevitz.com> wrote:
> 
>> A2: geli_/dev/gpt/ABCD_flags="-k /root/ABCD.key" (I'm sure this is
>> wrong)
> 
> what didn't I get? You encrypt but leave the keys on the machine?

Erich,

I should have been more clear: I question what should the rc.conf variable name should be.  Certainly I cannot put forward slashes in a variable name as I did in A2:

geli_/dev/gpt/ABCD_flags=

Chris


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