starting Fedora Server SIG

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 19:49:26 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) said: 
>>> plymouth (required by mkinitrd) can installed by default, but there
>>> should be possibility to run without it
>>
>> As it's used for handling encryption passphrases (and will be used even
>> more in future releases for this, to do sane storage handling), it's
>> not optional.
>
> How does that work for an unattended machine?

Probably just about as well as setting up a passphrased-protected
encrypted volume worked before plymouth.

Now, if you want to set it up to use keys from a file...

Bill




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