Bug 459191

Summary:	RFE - plymouth boot support for global passphrase
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Laska <jlaska>
Component:	plymouth	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	atodorov, dlehman, jturner, krh
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Description James Laska 2008-08-14 20:51:10 UTC

Description of problem:

Anaconda supports using a "global passphrase" so that any encrypted block devices all use the same passphrase.  The intent is to enter the passphrase once, and have it used throughout, whenever needed.

Having similar support when booting a system using plymouth would be great.  Something to the effect:

  Enter passphrase for /dev/sda1: *******
  Use as a global passphrase? [y/n]: 

Questions this raises:
 Q - should this support be in graphical plymouth boot *and* text-mode boot
 Q - should use of a global passphrase be a boot parameter?

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-08-14 21:25:38 UTC

So we should just try the previous password.  If it works great, if it fails, prompt.

Comment 2 James Laska 2008-08-15 12:46:39 UTC

Great idea, that simplifies the UI big time.

Comment 3 Alexander Todorov 2008-08-15 14:10:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> So we should just try the previous password.  If it works great, if it fails,
> prompt.

+1, be as silent as possible.

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-08-20 20:04:01 UTC

This should be implemented in git master now.

Not in rawhide yet.

Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-08-26 13:29:11 UTC

This is in rawhide now.