systemd-cryptsetup (8)

Full disk decryption logic

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SYNOPSIS

[email protected]

/lib/systemd/systemd-cryptsetup

DESCRIPTION

[email protected] is a service responsible for setting up encrypted block devices. It is instantiated for each device that requires decryption for access.

[email protected] will ask for hard disk passwords via the \m[blue]password agent logic\m[]\s-2\u[1]\d\s+2, in order to query the user for the password using the right mechanism at boot and during runtime.

At early boot and when the system manager configuration is reloaded this /etc/crypttab is translated into [email protected] units by systemd-cryptsetup-generator(8).

RELATED TO systemd-cryptsetup…

systemd(1), systemd-cryptsetup-generator(8), crypttab(5), cryptsetup(8)

NOTES

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password agent logic

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents