[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd, luks and retry

[Williamson Grant]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I mailed Ray Strode,  
its easy enough to add
in the init.d livesys script add
--number-of-tries=x
and
-Tx
To the line
plymouth ask-for-password --command="cryptsetup luksOpen $homedev  
EncHome"


On Mar 13, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Friday, March 13 2009, Williamson Grant said:
>> Will a livecd use /etc/crypttab if the file exists?
>
> Yes
>
>> Creating a 8gb liveusb with --home-size-mb 2048 --overlay-size-mb  
>> 2048,
>> works fine. However I would like
>> to increase the number of passwords attempts allowed.
>> I seem to be having no luck increasing the default password retry  
>> from 3
>> on the encrypted home directory.
>> Formating using -T x or adding retry=x seem to leave the default at  
>> 3.
>
> The default with an encrypted /home is that we use plymouth to prompt
> which is also the behavior now in the real system.  And I don't think
> that plymouth has any way to request retrying more than 3 times
>
> Jeremy
>
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