Hi there ! I have a little box at home, hosting some little services for personal use under freebsd with a full disk encryption (geli). I’m never at home and long power outage often occurs so I always need to come back home to type my passphrase to decrypt the disk.

I was searching this week a solution to do it remotely and found the “poor-guy-kvm” solutions turning a Raspberry like board (beaglebone black in my case) in a hid keyboard. It works fine once the computer has booted but once reboot when the passphrase is asked before it loads the loader menu, nothing. When I plug an ordinary USB keyboard I can type my passphrase so USB module is loaded.

Am I missing something ? Am I trying something impossible ?

(I could’ve asked on freebsd forum but… Have to suscribe, presentation, etc… Long journey)

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    11 months ago

    The key to a good search is to know what your are looking for.

    If you know what you are looking for
    I know how you feel brother.
    At least we have the awesome members of the community showing us the other options!