On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 02:22:35PM -0800, Chris Kuethe wrote:
quoted text
>Currently bioctl invokes readpassphrase(3) with RPP_REQUIRE_TTY, which
>means that there must be a controlling tty to read the password from.
>This diff adds an option (-s) to force bioctl to read the passphrase
>from stdin. Without this option existing behavior is maintained.

Hello,

little improvement of bioctl(8), when using stdin it cannot be used
for inital creation of the crypt volume. (there's same info for passfile.)

jirib

Index: bioctl.8
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RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8,v
retrieving revision 1.83
diff -u -p -r1.83 bioctl.8
--- bioctl.8	1 Dec 2010 19:40:18 -0000	1.83
+++ bioctl.8	21 Dec 2010 13:20:39 -0000
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ Read the passphrase for the selected cry
 .Pa /dev/stdin
 rather than
 .Pa /dev/tty .
+It cannot be used during the initial creation of the crypto volume.
 .El
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 The following command, executed from the command line, would configure