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

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 5 20:11:22 UTC 2014


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

-- 
Allan Jude

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