Re: Unlock a Veracrypt/Truecrypt partition which uses a keyfile with a passphrase from /etc/crypttab

Milan Broz <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:16:15 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.cryptsetup
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/22/23 12:09, Arno Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:01:37 CEST, Milan Broz wrote:
>> On 8/22/23 11:37, Arno Wagner wrote:
>>> That sounds like a question for the Veracrypt maintainers.
>>> /etc/crypttab is not even used by cryptestup, the topic
>>> of this mailing list.
>>
>> Actually, this has nothing to do with Veracrypt code, systemd crypttab
>> supports mounting of Veracrypt volumes through libcryptsetup.
>>
>> Milan
> 
> Thanks for the correction. I would not know, I am still
> running systemd-free and have no intentions of changing that.

I think Debian non-systemd crypttab parsing supports tcrypt
libcryptsetup mounting options as well - I was quite surprised too :)

Milan