Is there a way to bypass LUKS and get a machine booted?

[Bill Davidsen]

Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 03/11/2012 08:52 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> is there some way to tell LUKS to skip mounting /home and just come up
>> with boot and root?
>>
>> Yes, I tried the obvious, having someone bring up the machine, unmount
>> /home, and then commenting out the /home in /etc/fstab (tried noauto
>> first). Didn't help. Yes I did it in the boot fstab too. More didn't
>> help.
>
> Have you tried moving /etc/crypttab to a temp name and creating an empty
> /etc/crypttab? I believe crypttab is read on boot to bring up encrypted
> mounts (not really fstab alone).

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll try that and see if it solves the 
problem. Ideally it would be good to mount on demand all the time, but 
that may present administrative problems in other ways.

-bill