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Am 02.01.2012 11:49, schrieb Florian Philipp: |
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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 documentation. |
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>> I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on my laptop. I am thinking |
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>> of cryptography and other things (the password uncrypt the repository and |
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>> allows to read files...). |
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>> What tool to use for ? Anybody knows a good doc (in french would be really |
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>> good) ? |
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>> |
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>> I am not really paranoïd, but I work now in a quite important environnement |
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>> and want any data I get out to be secured... |
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> |
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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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> 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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5. Add it to /etc/fstab (the 'target=' line in /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt |
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specifies the name). |
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> [...] |
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I recommend testing it with some easily recoverable file system like |
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/var/tmp or /usr/src/portage. |
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