Bug 588942 – RFE - Always assume global passphrase when unlocking encrypted volumes

Bugzilla will be upgraded to version 5.0 on December 2, 2018. The outage period for the upgrade will start at 0:00 UTC and have a duration of 12 hours

Bug 588942 - RFE - Always assume global passphrase when unlocking encrypted volumes

Summary:	RFE - Always assume global passphrase when unlocking encrypted volumes

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	David Lehman
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
Docs Contact:

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends On:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2010-05-04 17:16 EDT by James Laska
Modified:	2013-09-02 02:48 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

See Also:
Fixed In Version:	anaconda-16.3-1
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-09-01 14:44:31 EDT
Type:	---
Regression:	---
Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Groups: None (edit)

Description James Laska 2010-05-04 17:16:20 EDT

Anaconda behaves differently than plymouth when prompting for a passphrase to unlock encrypted volumes.  Plymouth, seems to have a more intuitive approach.  

Instead of offering to remember the "Global passphase" when unlocking encrypted volumes, would we instead ... 

 1. Attempt to unlock encrypted volume using list of saved passwords (initially empty).
 2. If not unlocked, prompt for passphrase
 3. Save entered passphrase to internal list of passphrases
 4. Repeat steps 1-3 for every encrypted volume encountered

I know bugzilla isn't the best place to have this discussion, I'll be happy to move this to a more appropriate location.  Ideas/thoughts?

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.