gbde destroy doesn't match man page?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Aug 26 21:51:31 UTC 2014
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In message <201408261723.53428.jhb at freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>> Hmm, now that I think about it, -n doesn't make sense because any
>> one of the four keys can open the volume as needed to blow away the
>> masterkey.
>>
>> The manual page should just be fixed.
>
>Should the '-n -1' just be removed? I.e., is 'gbde destroy' sufficient to
>destroy all copies of the key?
(Sorry about previous empty reply)
Yes, the -n isn't needed because it doesn't operate on any specific key
but all of them.
This differs from for instance "setkey" where you may use key number
1 to set a new key number 2.
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