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------- Comment From buendgen at de.ibm.com 2017-02-10 06:35 EDT-------
Here is another suggestion for a message:

"Please supply the passphrase to unlock disk dasda2_crypt"

That leaves open where the passphrase would come from but makes clear that the unlocking process requires to obtain some passphrase.
"Enter" clearly makes only sense in an interactive setting.

As for the value of dm-crypt for z Systems (and other servers).
You are right serer disks cannot easily be stolen lie laptop disks can. But server data residing typically on some remote storage serve in some SAN might  be accessible by unauthorized systems. Further the owner of the storage subsystem and the Linux image may not be the same (cloud scenario). dm-crpt provides E2E security for the date of the owner of the operating system.

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Title:
  LUKS Unlock prompt should be reworded

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Opinion
Status in cryptsetup package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Michael Roesch <ROESCH3 at de.ibm.com> - 2016-02-16 04:08:05 ==
  When using LUKS-encrypted partitions, it should be more obvious that the system wants you to enter a password to unlock the respective partition. The current message is misleading. 

  Current message:

  Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.   
  Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...   
  Please unlock disk dasda2_crypt

  I suggest the following change:

  Please enter passphrase to unlock disk dasda2_crypt

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