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Apple: SSH and FileVault

(keith.github.io)
507 points ingve | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Cu3PO42 ◴[18 Sep 25 21:02 UTC] No.45294976[source]▶
Neat. Though I wonder if this suffers from the same race condition that the graphical session does when your shell is stored on a data volume.

Specifically, if you restart and opt to restart apps, they can come up before all volumes have been decrypted and mounted. If your shell is on one such volume, your terminal emulator may fail to start, for example. This can happen when using Nix to install your shell, for example.

I imagine this may be even easier to hit over SSH unless the underlying problem was resolved.

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1. xrisk ◴[18 Sep 25 21:48 UTC] No.45295432[source]▶
This is such a hilarious failure mode. I would never have imagined something like this to a problem.

In the case of SSH though, I assume retrying after a second or so would be enough. You probably have some sort of retry mechanism to deal with network failures anyway.