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Bug#1042094: initramfs-tools: Please support systemd-cryptsetup unlocked root filesystem

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  Bug#1042094: initramfs-tools: Please support systemd-cryptsetup unlocked root filesystem Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-11-17 00:30 +0100

#1270457 — Bug#1042094: initramfs-tools: Please support systemd-cryptsetup unlocked root filesystem

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:57:40 +0200 "Jonathan Hettwer (bauen1)"
<j2468h@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.142
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: j2468h@gmail.com
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I want to utilize systemd-cryptsetup to unlock an encrypted root
> filesystem using e.g. a TPM2.0, or one of the other options offered by
> systemd-cryptsetup.
> This is supported by dracut, since it uses systemd in the initramfs.
> 
> Supporting this would require (optionally) including systemd-cryptsetup in the
> initramfs and running it to potentially unlock some devices
> automatically.
> However, I am not sure if systemd-cryptsetup requires systemd to be running, so
> this may or may not depend on #717429 which is unlikely to be implemented.

I don't think we will try to implement this in initramfs-tools.  If you
need this then use dracut (which will be the default initramfs generator
for the next Debian release anyway).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein

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