Few question about your arch installation.
thepenguinthatwants opened this issue · 1 comments
Hi!
Looking at your setup it feels very complete. I've being using archlinux for a while but there are always things that are totally new and in a way I cant fiddle things out totally. So I wanted to ask few questions.
So I saw this line, does it mean you can add a optional key into a usb key?
cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/sdX2 /crypto_keyfile.bin
Is it then possible to make it password based login but also being able to login using keyfile. Like having multiple keys?
Why did you use?
dbus-uuidgen --ensure
I've never done it before so wondering what does it do? Is it related to your btrfs setup?
Have being using systemd-boot for a while but gotten quite envious about the snap-pac-grub so maybe changing back to grub cos of that. Or Do you know if it can be easily converted to systemd-boot?
Hey!
So I saw this line, does it mean you can add a optional key into a usb key?
cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/sdX2 /crypto_keyfile.bin
Is it then possible to make it password based login but also being able to login using keyfile. Like having multiple keys?
No no, this is for another purpose. Because my /boot is also encrypted, I am first asked for a password for GRUB, but then I'm asked again for the same password to unlock the root partition. This trick simply allows to unlock the root partition automatically, without having to repeat the password. Check out this wiki for more details.
Why did you use?
dbus-uuidgen --ensure
I've never done it before so wondering what does it do? Is it related to your btrfs setup?
This ensures that a file /var/lib/dbus/machine-id exists and contains a UUID, I don't remember precisely, but some app required that file. Basically it's a machine ID.
Have being using systemd-boot for a while but gotten quite envious about the snap-pac-grub so maybe changing back to grub cos of that. Or Do you know if it can be easily converted to systemd-boot?
My main reason to use GRUB was because AFAIK systemd-boot doesn't support encrypted /boot, but then yes grub-btrfs / snap-pac-grub also are made for GRUB, so I'm locked in with GRUB anyway 😄