Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 2016 23:11:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org>
To:        christian.djumlija@yahoo.de
Cc:        "freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: 17.12. Encrypting Disk Partitions
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.1.10.1602222310300.26829@multics.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1454653447.11008831.1455904231555.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <1454653447.11008831.1455904231555.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1454653447.11008831.1455904231555.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, christian.djumlija@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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?alpine.GSO.1.10.1602222310300.26829>