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Today, I was trying to resize a logical volume of one of my systems running Fedora Core 5, configured with two LVM volumes (one for the root filesystem and another one for swap) on top of a software RAID-0. Since the volume I wanted to shrink holds the root filesystem, I had to boot from [...]

Fedora Directory Server protects its internal, software-based, cryptographic repository with a PIN (passphrase).
When an instance of a Fedora Directory Server is configured for SSL/TLS support, by default, the start-up script interactively prompts for that PIN in order to unlock the private key. This can be a problem for automated system start-ups.
However, there is a way [...]