Changing geli-providers from passphrase to keyfile

[Christian Baer]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:11:25 +0100 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> So what you basically want is to change your passphrase to a keyfile?
>
> 	# echo piped-passphrase | geli setkey -P -K - ad0s1d
> 	Enter passphrase:
> 	# echo piped-passphrase | geli attach -p -k - ad0s1d

Yup, that was it! :-) Thanks for the help!

Does this in any way affect the strength of the security or does it have
other drawbacks? Can I still save the metadata with 'backup'?

Regards
Chris