Re: What does cryptsetup luksAddKey --new-key-description do?

Borden <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:09:53 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.cryptsetup
Message-ID <[email protected]>


Jun 15, 2026, 05:33 by [email protected]:

> It reads a passphrase for a new keyslot from a kernel keyring key with the description provided as --new-key-desription value argument.
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> I'll improve the man pages description to make it clear. Feel free to open new issue on > https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
>
Thank you. It was unclear that description refers specifically to the kernel keyring. I thought it might have been a LUKS label or something.

As long as this shows up in search results so you don't have to be bothered about this again, I'm happy.