Re: Why is the chk_luks_keyslots tool not routinely included?

Robert Nichols <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/29/20 9:09 AM, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 29/03/2020 14:34, Jordan Glover wrote:
>> On Sunday, March 29, 2020 10:20 AM, Arno Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I think that is a decision by the distros. I am certainly
>>> willing to maintain it for the foreseeable future. It is
>>> not really much effort.
>>
>> The distros just do "make install" [1]. I think it's upstream who decides what this command does.
>>
>> [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/cryptsetup#n39
> 
> My plan was to include this check in repair command instead of adding additional binary.
> (The code could remain basically the same.)
> 
> With LUKS2 we can store other data in binary keyslot area (depends on type), so it need a little
> bit more work but it should not be a big problem.
> 
> Please report an issue for it, that helps to not forget about it.

Done. https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/issues/545

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