dyne/Tomb — Issue #80: can't open a tomb on sshfs (ubuntu lucid)
Author: boyska
Created: 2012-01-18 11:52:56+00:00
State: open

That's a nasty issue.
Here's the scenario. A tomb is on a remote server. The key is on our usb pen.
We mount the remote server filesystem using sshfs. tomb has troubles when opening it.

Some notes:

* `file $tombname` detects it correctly
* deleting the check does not solve the problem: cryptsetup fails
* copying the tomb on local filesystem make it work
* lot of ssh servers tried

This bug does NOT happen on archlinux. So, I think the problem is on a old version of cryptsetup. on archlinux I have cryptsetup 1.4.1; every ubuntu version has cryptsetup 1.1 (so upgrading to natty narwal won't solve); debian stable has 1.1, testing and unstable has 1.3

Can anyone check this on as much platform/combination to confirm/disprove my hypothesis?

It would be especially good to know WHICH version of cryptsetup is required to do this and if there is a workaround