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Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: |
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> Dale, |
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> On Sunday, 2020-03-22 04:34:54 -0500, you wrote: |
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>> I wanted to post a couple things for future reference. First, it seems |
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>> this thing requires sudo to work. Add the executable to the sudo file |
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>> thingy. |
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> I didn't do this, and it works anyway: |
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> # cat /etc/sudoers | grep crypt |
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> # |
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I wonder if this is a version issue. When I was googling for this, it |
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was claimed this was a recent change. That's my recollection anyway. |
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I'm using version veracrypt-1.24_p2. |
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>> It does ask for a root password, to mount the USB stick I |
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>> guess. |
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> Not quite, it does ask for MY password, but only for the first mount |
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> after a login. And yes, under "Application Autostart" of XFCE I have |
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> /usr/bin/veracrypt --background-task |
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> If I remember correctly, when configuring VeraCrypt under Windows there |
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> is a checkbox for autostarting it on login. |
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I recall seeing there was a bug that affected XFCE but not all other |
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desktops. I use KDE here. It had something to do with the way the |
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program was started or something. Since I don't use XFCE, I didn't get |
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into the details. |
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>> ... |
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>> I wanted this to work on windoze as well, I |
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>> chose vfat or whatever. |
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> My encrypted USB sticks (I have two identical ones, just in case) are |
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> NTFS formatted. And yes, naming files requires some caution. Under |
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> Linux files "A" and "a" can coexist, under Windows they can't. |
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> Sincerely, |
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> Rainer |
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Yea, it poses a problem. In some ways, windoze has a advantage but in |
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some ways, Linux does. Either way, it pays to be careful and to watch |
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for errors. It could result in files not be copied over. |
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So far, I like this software. It's fairly easy to use considering what |
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it is doing. The best part, it has a GUI. That helps a lot. It's a |
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lot easier to set options in a GUI than it is to remember a bunch of |
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options on a command line. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |