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On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:59:18 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> I encrypt my home partition with LUKS and enter a passphrase |
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> during boot. But I always wanted to get decryption upon login running, |
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> especially because it would require me to enter one less password. But |
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> haven’t gotten around to that yet. |
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Are you the only use of the computer? If so, set your display manager to |
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auto-login, you have already authenticated yourself by unlocking the home |
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partition. |
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> > With one notable exception. There is sometimes sensitive information |
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> > in /etc, like wireless passwords. |
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> For that reason I put this stuff into /home/etc/$hostname/ (I back up my |
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> machines’ /etc on all other machines, also to have a reference if I need |
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> to know “How did I do this on $other_host?”). And then I symlink to |
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> that from the real location, i.e.: |
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I used to do that, now I have an encrypted /, which contains the keys for |
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any other encrypted volumes, so I still only need to enter one password. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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