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Re: UI inconsistency: unlocking LUKS-encrypted drives

From Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: UI inconsistency: unlocking LUKS-encrypted drives
Date 2017-09-04 04:20 +0200
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On 03/09/2017, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net> wrote:
> For some LUKS-encrypted partitions, when I unlock them from Debian,
> the computer only asks me for the passphrase for the encrypted
> partition. For other such partitions, when I unlock them, the computer
> also asks me for my user password.* See detailed description below.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. is this inconsistency intended, and if so, why?

The cause of the inconsistency seems to have been that the
"HintSystem" property[1] was set differently between the various
devices concerned.

[1]: https://people.freedesktop.org/~david/udisks2-20110929/gdbus-org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block.html

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UI inconsistency: unlocking LUKS-encrypted drives Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net> - 2017-09-03 22:10 +0200
  Re: UI inconsistency: unlocking LUKS-encrypted drives Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net> - 2017-09-04 04:20 +0200
    Re: UI inconsistency: unlocking LUKS-encrypted drives Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-09-04 04:30 +0200

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