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authorThomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>2013-08-18 18:24:13 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-09-11 17:44:33 +0200
commit404dac4d96f4aaf66026e8b412c4b67e8773cffa (patch)
treec3e457040055971994d16881be8cec1ee1a9d79c /man/crypttab.xml
parent64347fc2b983f33e7efb0fd2bb44e133fb9f30f4 (diff)
cryptsetup: Retry indefinitely if tries=0 option has been set.
When running from initrd, entering a wrong passphrase usually means that you cannot boot. Therefore, we allow trying indefinitely.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/crypttab.xml b/man/crypttab.xml
index 15c86d3897..90d8ce95fe 100644
--- a/man/crypttab.xml
+++ b/man/crypttab.xml
@@ -330,7 +330,9 @@
<term><varname>tries=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Specifies the maximum number of
- times the user is queried for a password.</para></listitem>
+ times the user is queried for a password.
+ The default is 3. If set to 0, the user is
+ queried for a password indefinitely.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>