geli: pass user password from loader?

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 7 21:04:01 UTC 2014


Hello, Freebsd-geom.

 I've installed 10-RELEASE on laptop with geli + ZFS, and now it is
annoying, that geli password prompt is overwritten by next kernel messages
(about USB devices) and prompt is very plain and dull :)

 But we have forth in our loader, so nice screen could be written with some
message like "This Laptop belongs to Lev Serebryakov <phone> <email>, Please
enter master password to boot:" and input line in nice frame could be
programmed (in addition to our standard boot menu).

 But is it possible to pass password string from loader to geom_eli? "man
geli" doesn't show such possibility :(

-- 
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>



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