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From: Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:59:17
Message-Id: 200507280154.52878.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home by Pupeno
1 Alle 01:18, giovedì 28 luglio 2005, Pupeno ha scritto:
2 > Hello,
3 > I want to have the /home of my laptop encripted, with an external key
4 > (in a CD or floppy, until I get an usb pain drive), specially to be
5 > able to change the passphrase easily and have various medias with
6 > different passphrases and the same key (so, my wife can uses her own
7 > passphrase), is this possible ? it'll be the non written 13th item
8 > here:
9 > http://www.sdc.org/~leila/usb-dongle/readme.html, right ?
10 > Any docs that explains how to achieve this (as close as possible to
11 > Gentoo). Thanks.
12
13 I have my home encrypt...
14 But I cannot change the passphrase!
15 I use the dm-crypt from the kernel....
16 With these options, I can create a dynamic passphrase...
17 /bin/cryptsetup -h ripemd160 -c aes create home /path/device
18 You don't need a key (that someone can keep and force) but the key is
19 created from the passphrase: that means that without that word works
20 nothing,but you need a good password (and please, don't write it on the
21 monitor ;-) ...)
22 cryptsetup is in portage tree, dm-crypt option is in the kernel...
23 See you,
24 Luigi
25 --
26 Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home Pupeno <pupeno@××××××.com>