Personal ArchLinux package combining dropbear and cryptsetup in initrd for unlocking LUKS-encrypted devices either locally (boot console) or remotely over SSH. The code was reworked from dropbear_initrd_encrypt.

Installation

After cloning the repo, installation is done as for an AUR package.

Configuration

As explained upon installation, the following things need to be done:

• add the SSH public key to /etc/dropbear/initrd.authorized_keys
• add the ip= kernel command parameter to the bootloader configuration (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#Using_net)
• in the HOOKS section of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, add ssh-cryptsetup before filesystems; then rebuild the initramfs: mkinitcpio -p linux

The LUKS-encrypted devices to unlock are derived from /etc/crypttab.

The SSH listening port (22 by default) can be changed by setting the sshcs_opt_listen option in /etc/dropbear/initrd.env (file is sourced in initrd shell). For example:

sshcs_opt_listen=2222