LUKS: No Keyboard, No Monitor NO SERIAL PORT

bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 590

Hi all,

my old server was encrypted. Now I used to have serial console for password entering.
My new server doesn't have a serial port. What options do I have?

chithanh · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:35 pm Post subject:

Put dropbear in initramfs?

bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 590

can genkernel handle that??

Mad Merlin · Veteran Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 1155

If you're not tied to the idea of full disk encryption, you can have a slim root/boot that is unencrypted, then you ssh in after it boots and mount the rest of your partitions, which contain the sensitive data.
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