This may help someone at somepoint. Though when searching google, I didn’t find many suse users looking for this solution, more Ubuntu and others. (I think I found one on these forums). So either SuSE users don’t care, or have solved this really easily making this redundant 
Anyway I wanted ssh server running when asking for the LUKS password on an encrypted system, so in case I needed to remote reboot or restart.
Luks and SSH on OpenSuSE 11.4
Also for encrypted root partitions and partition based installation, I found that the easiest way is to go via LVM and then edit the suggested setup, to leave only root on lvm and make others on their own partitions,
Hope this helps someone.
Very interesting. Thanks.
On 2011-10-12 08:36, oldcraft wrote:
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> So either SuSE users
> don’t care, or have solved this really easily making this redundant
I don’t boot remotely, so I haven’t noticed.
> Also for encrypted root partitions and partition based installation, I
> found that the easiest way is to go via LVM and then edit the suggested
> setup, to leave only root on lvm and make others on their own
> partitions,
But then you need to enter the password several times, one for the lvm, and
another for each separate partition. The idea of using LVM in this case is
entering the password just once.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I assume that the idea is to put the passwords for other partitions into files in the root partition, and enter those paths in “/etc/crypttab”. That way, you only have to interactively provide the password for the root partition.
yes you could.
Also the built in LUKS script, which is what I based my script actually tries the first password on the other partitions, so if they are the same you enter it once. (Which did work sometimes )