Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/cgdconfig

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>]

Christoph Badura wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 10:41:55PM +0000, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> > Perhaps the simplest change would be to pass an unresolved (original)
> > name when composing a paramsfile. E.g.
> > 
> > /etc/cgd/NAME=mylabel
> > /etc/cgd/ROOT.e
> 
> Alas, this will break existing installations that e.g. use /etc/cgd/dkNN when
> using NAME=label in fstab.

You can't use the same dkNN in fstab and in cgd.conf because mount will
refuse to mount an encrypted partition.

I think it will only break setups that use NAME=label in _cgd.conf_ and
don't specify a paramsfile. These setups are rare because NAME=label
syntax was documented only a couple of days ago ;-) Though, some people
may have figured it out before me.

> For compatibility it may be necessary to try the resolved named when the
> unresolved form does not exist.
> 
> I would prefer /etc/cgd/mylabel, btw.

Yeah, I don't like /etc/cgd/NAME=mylabel either ;-)

There are other considerations like handling weird labels like this one:

NAME=../../../../etc/passwd

Ok, lets keep the default as it is. Those who want a different name
can always specify a paramsfile explicitly and choose their favourite
naming convention.

-- 
Alex