Bug 1542

Summary: luks-tools, various utilities for working with LUKS-protected filesystems
Product: Mageia Reporter: Dick Gevers <dvgevers>
Component: New RPM package requestAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: davidwhodgins, marja11
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.flyn.org/projects/luks-tools/index.html
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Description Dick Gevers 2011-06-03 08:44:36 CEST
Description of problem:

( From overview of the package )

The luks-tools package contains various utilities for working with LUKS-protected filesystems. HAL uses these utilities to automatically mount encrypted volumes when they are attached to a system, provided the user can produce the correct passphrase. These utilities are written as separate programs to allow MAC systems like SELinux to have fine-grained control over them.

luks-format
    A utility that formats a filesystem to contain a LUKS encryption header. 
luks-is-encrypted
    A tool that can determine if a filesystem contains a LUKS encryption header. 
luks-setup
    A utility that sets up the dm-crypt device map for a partition. 
gnome-luks-format
    A GNOME front-end for luks-format.
Marja Van Waes 2011-10-17 20:25:15 CEST

URL: (none) => http://www.flyn.org/projects/luks-tools/index.html
CC: (none) => marja11
Summary: Mageia should have luks-tools => luks-tools, various utilities for working with LUKS-protected filesystems
Source RPM: http://www.flyn.org/projects/luks-tools/index.html => (none)
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2011-10-18 04:11:51 CEST
With the exception of the gui front end, all of the
luks commands are available as subcommands of cryptsetup

I've downloaded luks-tools-0.0.9.tar.gz (the most recent
version, and the files are all dated 2006

Looks like this is a dead project, from before the luks
commands were all merged into cryptsetup.

For a description of how to use the cryptsetup luks
commands, see
http://www.ody.ca/~dwhodgins/Luks-Howto.html

Also, if you use diskdrake to create an encrypted filesystem,
it will use cryptsetup luksformat, to created the encrypted
container, then create the filesystem setup for mounting at
boot time.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 Dick Gevers 2011-10-18 18:44:25 CEST
Given your comments (thanks!) I close the bug.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID