Ubuntu
cryptsetup package

man page wrong about cryptsetup default device type

Bug #1634444 reported by Fredrik Arnerup
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 16.10

cryptsetup-bin:
  Installed: 2:1.7.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2:1.7.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2:1.7.2-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

In ubuntu 16.04, I could open my LUKS-encrypted drive with:
cryptsetup open DEVICE NAME
but now I need
cryptsetup open DEVICE NAME --type luks

The man page says:
"Device type can be plain, luks (default), loopaes or tcrypt."
But luks no longer seems to be the default.

See original description
Tags: manpage
Fredrik Arnerup (arnerup-deactivatedaccount)
description: updated
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Fredrik Arnerup (arnerup-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Sorry, I thought it was cryptsetup prompting me for a password, but it turns out it was sudo ...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Changed in cryptsetup (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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