Slackware and IBMTTS: Progress, sort of

[Zachary Kline]

Hi,
    I appear to have found a bug, or at least an incompatibility, in 
Slackware, specifically its version of losetup and related tools, which is 
causing me a great deal of problems.
    The voxin-installer.sh cannot mount the encrypted filesystem because 
Ubuntu and Debian have, apparently, different ways of dealing with the 
password.  By default it seems that Ubuntu and Debian hash the password, and 
Slackware's version of losetup doesn't know about this--is it an earlier 
version?  Anyhow, when I try mounting on it, I get an error about unknown 
filesystem type: naturally, since the password I'm given which is entirely 
correct is being given raw to the encryption engine, unhashed.
    I'm not quite sure what to do about this.  According to
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/encrypted-filesystem-wont-mount-because-of-different-version-of-losetup-616885/
there is a -n option to the Ubuntu/Debian version of Losetup which will 
bypass the hash.  I don't have that version, however, and I don't have any 
version of Ubuntu or Debian handy at the moment.  Mildly annoying.
    Any advice from anybody here as far as that goes?  I'd really appreciate 
it.  Gils?
Thanks much,
Zack.