Bug 446930

Summary: kickstart encrypted filesystem prompt for passphrase doesn't work
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Schanzle <bugzilla>
Component: anacondaAssignee: David Lehman <dlehman>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Chris Schanzle 2008-05-16 17:13:37 UTC
Kickstart will not prompt for a passphrase when the actual passphrase is omitted
as documented in kickstart-docs.txt. I'm using options "--encrypted
--passphrase=".  Result is unencrypted devices.  Happens with both "text" and
graphical installs.  Actually giving a password using --passphrase=password
works, but is insecure to embed in the kickstart file.

100% reproducible.

I'm hopeful an anaconda patch to load during kickstart will appear so we don't
have to wait for F10.

Comment 1 Philip Mather 2008-06-04 11:45:39 UTC
Bump, vote or whatever.
   I really need this or even better to be able to specify a location to write a
key to such as "--key-file=/dev/sdc1/disk.key" would be unbelievably handy. I
can then prompt the user either post-install or at first-boot to set a
pass-phrase as an alternative or then and a company wide recovery key somehow.

Comment 2 David Lehman 2008-08-14 19:51:53 UTC
Fix will be in anaconda-11.4.1.29-1 (rawhide).