[Bug 1756840] Re: Buggy, under-maintained, not fit for main anymore; alternatives exist

[Urop]

I'd like to add another use case requiring non-full disk encryption.
Machines that need to be powered on and off remotely, which is currently
done using a wake-on-lan. The machines are not full-disk encrypted, but
make use of encrypted homes and certain encrypted disks/partitions that
can be decrypted after boot. With this setup, if security updates or a
power cut require a machine to be shut down, it can be rebooted remotely
by the owner.

Switching to full disk encryption would be preferable. However, there
are currently no simple solutions for remote entry of the system
password by the owner of the machine. (There's setup of a separate low
power device that can be logged into remotely and that could imitate a
USB keyboard to enable remote entry of the system password... but it
seems overly complicated and would be yet another thing to maintain.)

A case in point is my own home machine. I spend several months a year
out the country, and don't need or want it on all the time while I'm
abroad, but need to be able to power it on and access it occasionally.

Unless or until there a simple solution for remote system password
entry, non-full disk encryption is still needed, and so it was a mistake
to remove this functionality.

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