[linux-lvm] [Bulk] Re: lvm protected against crypt/luks

[lejeczek]

On 08/03/16 14:14, Ondrej Kozina wrote:
> On 03/08/2016 03:02 PM, lejeczek wrote:
>> superb, thanks chaps,
>> on keyfiles, would you know why this:
>>
>> cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/h300Int1/0 h300Int1.0_crypt
>> /etc/crypttab.key --keyfile-offset 12
>>
>
> IIUC it seems like missing -d/--key-file option in front 
> of "/etc/crypttab.key" string. Well it also depends on 
> actual content of your /etc/crypttab.key file. Does it 
> really contain backup of your keyslot passphrase (human 
> readable text data)? Or does it contain volume key for 
> your luks device (usually looks like binary data, bunch of 
> random bytes that really should not be human readable:))
>
> Regards
> Ondrej
many thanks Onrej,
it seems I got it completely wrong, the concept of it, I 
thought the keyfile is pure randomness and I just simply 
pick up a chunk of it with the help of offest.
But why then it works fine without offset, with no 
passphrase in keyfile at any time?
>
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