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| author | Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> | 2013-08-18 18:24:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2013-09-11 17:44:33 +0200 |
| commit | 404dac4d96f4aaf66026e8b412c4b67e8773cffa (patch) | |
| tree | c3e457040055971994d16881be8cec1ee1a9d79c /man/crypttab.xml | |
| parent | 64347fc2b983f33e7efb0fd2bb44e133fb9f30f4 (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.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/crypttab.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/crypttab.xml | 4 |
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> |