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On Friday 24 February 2006 15:18, Matthias Bethke wrote: |
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> I have a bit of chicken-and-egg problem trying to get encrypted |
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> removable devices to work as "normal" as possible. |
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> Using Loop-AES and a GPG-encrypted key I had no problems encrypting my |
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> external FW drive, but to pass all the options to losetup without |
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> entering them by hand every time, I need an fstab entry. The drive |
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> shows up as /dev/sda, but putting /dev/sda1 there is no good as it |
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> would try to use Loop-AES on *every* external drive. So far I could |
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> just use volume labels in my fstab to distinguish any number of |
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> drives---well, I used to until hald/dbus made that automatic. But now |
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> there are no labels any more as they get encrypted as well. |
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> Has anyone come up with a solution for this yet? I could imagine some |
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> plugin for the hotplug system that checks /proc/scsi/scsi for a |
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> certain model before mounting. Not the cleanest solution either but as |
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> my external drives are different models it would work for me. I don't |
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> have much of a clue about the hotplug system though... |
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With udev you can create hardware-specific devices (meaning you can have |
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a device in /dev that corresponds exactly to some particular hard disk), |
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based on various hardware-specific information (eg, manufacturer name or |
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device id and many others) See |
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http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html |
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for the details. |
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