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On Monday 02 January 2012 11:49:11 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 02.01.2012 09:07, schrieb Stéphane Guedon: |
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> > Hi all |
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> > |
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> > I may ask something already discussed, but I can't find any good |
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> > documentation. I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on my |
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> > laptop. I am thinking of cryptography and other things (the password |
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> > uncrypt the repository and allows to read files...). |
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> > |
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> > What tool to use for ? Anybody knows a good doc (in french would be |
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> > really good) ? |
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> > I am not really paranoïd, but I work now in a quite important |
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> > environnement and want any data I get out to be secured... |
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> I recommend dm-crypt (a.k.a. cryptsetup-luks). It encrypts the block |
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> device under the actual file system. Gentoo wiki has some tutorials on |
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> it (although you don't need much of it): [1] [2] |
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> |
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> If you only want to encrypt your home partition, you only need to follow |
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> these steps: |
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> |
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> 1. Create an encrypted partition (see `man cryptsetup`) |
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> 2. Move /home/* over to it (don't forget backup) |
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> 3. Configure /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt |
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> 4. Add /etc/init.d/dmcrypt to boot runlevel |
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> Then the init script will ask you for the password at boot. dm-crypt |
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> allows multiple passwords per partition so that different users can have |
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> different passwords. |
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> The alternative to the dmcrypt init script is to use sys-auth/pam_mount. |
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> It allows you to use the login password to automatically decrypt a |
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> partition and mount it as /home/$user. [2] has a section about it. |
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> However, this breaks easily and is pretty hard to administrate if you |
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> have no experience with dm-crypt and pam. I recommend the first solution. |
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> [1] |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SECURITY_System_Encryption_DM-Crypt_with_LUK |
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> S [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/DM-Crypt |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Is this solution (the first one) easily integrated into some environnement |
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(kde) ? |
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I don't want to have numerous password (one for decrypt, one other to open the |
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desktop session as usual...), plus my wife would argue with some reason I am |
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always hacking the computer whereas we are just using it to look movies... |
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(she uses the computer also, but in a much more used way, so any solution has |
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to be comfortable to her too !) |
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-- |
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Stéphane Guedon |
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http://www.22decembre.eu/ |
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http://lectures.22decembre.eu/ |
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