libre #smartos

14 Dec 2025

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• 11:07
  bennabiy
  Anyone got time for a hopefully quick question?
• 11:23
  nikolam
  bennabiy, shoot, quick :P
• 11:24
  nikolam
  Don't ask to ask, just ask. As always :P
• 11:29
  bennabiy
  haha
• 11:29
  bennabiy
  Sorry, bad habit
• 11:30
  bennabiy
  Two questions to start: first - I am trying to get my SSH key set for root authentication on global but it does not seem to be working
• 11:30
  bennabiy
  second, Is it possible to take an encrypted luks external drive and pass it through to a zone / vm?
• 11:31
  tsoome_
  docs.smartos.org/extra-configuration-options ?
• 11:32
  bennabiy
  I have done that, but it keeps rejecting the key... do I need to reboot for the change to take place?
• 11:33
  bennabiy
  I know I shouldn't have to
• 11:35
  tsoome_
  it may be needed, depending -- you have rootfs on ramdisk and on boot, the local "customizations" are added - from usbkey. if you update data on key, something needs to populate that data to rootfs....
• 11:39
  bennabiy
  That makes sense
• 11:39
  bennabiy
  rebooting and will test it
• 11:41
  tsoome_
  there may be service to restart to get it populated, but I really havent checked about those details myself.
• 11:43
  bennabiy
  reboot was simple enough. worked
• 11:43
  bennabiy
  As to the hard drive issue... any thoughts on that?
• 11:43
  tsoome_
  whole drive on luks?
• 11:43
  bennabiy
  yes
• 11:44
  bennabiy
  external USB
• 11:44
  bennabiy
  It has been a while since I have used SmartOS last... 2017 or so
• 11:45
  tsoome_
  for luks, afaik you would need linux, right.. because illumos itself does not provide luks.
• 11:45
  tsoome_
  and basically that means bhyve vm - and you can provide disk device for bhyve.
• 11:46
  bennabiy
  ok... so I can pass the whole drive to it through bhyve
• 11:47
  tsoome_
  yep. now the tricky question would be, if you can pass it as usb storage device or just as virtual disk device
• 11:48
  tsoome_
  the difference is about what will happen on disconnects.
• 11:49
  bennabiy
  I think I am going to duplicate it to a USB thumbdrive and test with non vital data
• 11:57
  bennabiy
  can I pass a disk to LX or just bhyve?
• 12:16
  tsoome_
  LX wont help unless you have userspace luks driver
• 12:17
  bennabiy
  That is what I thought
• 12:17
  tsoome_
  LX is passing linux syscalls to illumos kernel where those calls are translated
• 12:19
  bennabiy
  Can you remind me the proper illumos way of getting non ZFS drive info to be able to fill in my JSON config?
• 12:20
  bennabiy
  Sorry, it has been years since I have worked in this environment
• 12:21
  tsoome_
  whole disk device ends with p0
• 12:21
  bennabiy
  thanks