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Imagine a system with one or more LUKS encrypted partitions (root or others) or volumes and you need to unlock these partitions/volumes during startup. In this case you need to be able to log in remotely and provide a password at the early boot phase. This can be achieved by using one or more mkinitcpio hook(s) that configure a network interface and start some kind of SSH server. Some packages listed below contribute various mkinitcpio build hooks to ease the configuration. The following tutorials add a remote unlocking method in addition to the existing local console password prompt.
