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Provide passphrase to plymouth ask-for-password from command line

I'm working on booting a headless server (Fedora 16), entering the passphrase to decrypt the root disk (LUKS) over SSH using dropbear. I've got dropbear all working: I can SSH to the server while it's ...
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How to decrypt an encrypted container via ssh without entering a passphrase while requiring some client authentication?

I log in to a server via public key authentication and then mount a container (using e.g. LUKS/dm-crypt or truecrypt). At the moment, I have to enter the container password manually. Is there a way to ...
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How to open a port early in boot process to unlock LUKS via SSH

I have a fully encrypted server running Debian 6 and have set up dropbear and busybox to unlock the LUKS container via SSH (as described in this tutorial and in this U&L answer). Unfortunately, ...