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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:52:58 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Cc:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: -p with GELI
Message-ID:  <200603021553.02591.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060208201852.GA732@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <dsdidb$gf7$1@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <20060208201852.GA732@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Wednesday 08 February 2006 20:18, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:56:27PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote:
> +> Hi folks!
> +>
> +> Is there some way to make GELI do the same this as GBDE does when the -p
> +> (small 'p') is used? The idea is to run GELI in a script, ask for the
> +> passphrase once and then attach, check and mount several providers with
> +> the same passphrase automatically.
>
> The '-p' option is gbde(8) is actually only for debug purposes, as other
> users can see it in ps(1) output (if not configured otherwise) and the
> passphrase will be logged via audit mechanism which is currenty merged
> to the tree.

Is there any work-around for this in gdbe? 

I currently use the  -p option to avoid all the typing. I'm not too worried 
about ps, but having the passphrase turn-up in a log file is a different 
matter.



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