geli passpharse only accepts first attempt, fails all others even if correct

Miguel Clara miguelmclara at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 04:33:09 UTC 2014



On June 6, 2014 4:23:06 AM GMT+01:00, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara at gmail.com> wrote:
>Ah great I'll sync my source and recompile :)
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Melhores Cumprimentos // Best Regards
>-----------------------------------------------
>*Miguel Clara*
>*IT - Sys Admin & Developer*
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>
>
>On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org>
>wrote:
>
>> On 2014-06-05 17:50, Allan Jude wrote:
>> > On 2014-06-05 17:07, Miguel Clara wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On June 5, 2014 9:11:22 PM GMT+01:00, Allan Jude
><allanjude at freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>> >>> On 2014-06-05 15:54, Miguel Clara wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> In FreeBSD 10 if I fail to type my geli passphase at boot I can
>try 2
>> >>> more times...
>> >>>>
>> >>>> In 11 current I see the 3 attempts too.. But I fail the the
>first it
>> >>> will always deny the others even if they are correct..
>> >>>> I tested this on purpose countless time and just update my
>source and
>> >>> recompiled and still see this issue.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Is anyone else using geli on current and noticing this behavior?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Note: using zfs... Not sure if that might be related but I also
>have
>> >>> zfs+geli on 10 and works nice.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Miguel Clara
>> >>>> _______________________________________________
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>> >>>
>> >>> Brad David (brd@) and I discovered this while testing some
>changes to
>> >>> the zfsboot installer. We then found there has been a PR for this
>for a
>> >>> while. Brad has a patch out for review that solves it, hopefully
>we'll
>> >>> have news on that soon
>> >>
>> >> Is there a link to that PR/patch? Maybe I can test if it works.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the reply.
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>> >
>> > The updated patch is here:
>> >
>> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185084
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> The fix has been committed to head:
>>
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=267145
>>
>> --
>> Allan Jude
>>
>>

Its working fine now, type the 1st wrong on purpose and it now accepts the second attempt. 

Thanks Brad for the patch and Allan for the info.



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