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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-10-07 15:45:04 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-10-07 15:45:39 +0200
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manually vacuum journal files to leave only the specified
number of files in place.
+ * The "ask-password" framework used to query for LUKS harddisk
+ passwords or SSL passwords during boot gained support for
+ caching passwords in the kernel keyring, if it is
+ available. This makes sure that the user only has to type in
+ his passphrase once if there are multiple objects to unlock
+ with the same one. Previously, such password caching was
+ available only when Plymouth was used; this moves the
+ caching logic into the systemd codebase itself. The
+ "systemd-ask-password" utility gained a new --keyname=
+ switch to control which kernel keyring key to use for
+ caching a password in. This functionality is also useful for
+ enabling display managers such as gdm to automatically
+ unlock the user's GNOME keyring if its passphrase, the
+ user's password and the harddisk password are the same, if
+ gdm-autologin is used.
+
* Galician, Serbian, Turkish and Korean translations were added.
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