diff options
author | Lukas Nykryn <lnykryn@redhat.com> | 2012-08-07 14:28:27 +0200 |
---|---|---|
committer | Lukas Nykryn <lnykryn@redhat.com> | 2012-08-07 14:34:33 +0200 |
commit | 5afd0fba8e67c3966e29d7b0f40f4085b6783d7b (patch) | |
tree | ea0bbb83ffe05bb6b2998a281106f34089e471ba | |
parent | f082f9e64eadbf68ef9bb67744c97c0974af9115 (diff) | |
download | initscripts-5afd0fba8e67c3966e29d7b0f40f4085b6783d7b.tar initscripts-5afd0fba8e67c3966e29d7b0f40f4085b6783d7b.tar.gz initscripts-5afd0fba8e67c3966e29d7b0f40f4085b6783d7b.tar.bz2 initscripts-5afd0fba8e67c3966e29d7b0f40f4085b6783d7b.tar.xz initscripts-5afd0fba8e67c3966e29d7b0f40f4085b6783d7b.zip |
Clarification of work with white spaces in crypttab manpage (#846140)
-rw-r--r-- | crypttab.5 | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ If the field is not present or the password is set to \fBnone\fR, the password has to be manually entered during system boot. Otherwise the field is interpreted as a path to a file containing the encryption password. +This field does not support spaces, whether escaped with back slashes +or quotes. Back slashes or quotes will cause this field +to be interpreted as a path to a password file. If you wish +to use a password with spaces in it, please use a password file. +If using a password file, please note that the entire contents of the +password file is used, including new lines and non-printable characters. +A password file without a line feed can be created with the "echo" command's "-n" +option. For example: echo -n "pass phrase" > MyPasswordFile For swap encryption .B /dev/urandom can be used as the password file; |