Patch for GBDE rc-script

Paul Allen pallen at ugcs.caltech.edu
Thu Sep 7 11:33:09 PDT 2006


>From Daniel Bond <db at danielbond.org>, Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:13:11PM +0200:
> Hi,
> 
> I just setup GBDE on my laptop, encrypting my 512M cf-card.
> This works like a charm, but I felt the need to enchance the rc-script a
> little to automatically mount the encrypted drive(s), if you have the
> following in /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> 	* gbde_autoattach_all="YES"
> 	* gbde_devices="device1 device2 .. etc" 
> 
> So I added another option:
> 	* gbde_mountpoint="/private" to /etc/defaults/rc.conf 
> 
> This option acts like a basedir for mounting the partition, IE. after running
> /etc/rc.d/gbde start, I get the following mount entry in the the mount-command
> output:
> 
> /dev/ad1s1c.bde on /private/bde_ad1s1c (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> 
It seems to me that this is really something that belongs in devd.  Boot-time
is decidedly not ideal.

                Paul


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