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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 13:29:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120102132931.36bbfd6f@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201021412.31844.stephane@22decembre.eu>

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On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:12:31 +0100, Stéphane Guedon wrote:

> > Alternatively, if you are using dmcrypt to encrypt /home, and you are
> > the only user, set KDE to auto-login that user. The login will fail if
> > dmcrypt failed to open your home partition, so one password
> > effectively secures it all.  
> 
> I am not the only user !

In that case, you probably want to use encfs to encrypt each home
directory separately. dmcrypt works on block devices, so a single home
partition would have a single password.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

With free advice you often get what you pay for.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-02 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-02  8:07 [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository Stéphane Guedon
2012-01-02  9:23 ` Kfir Lavi
2012-01-02 10:49 ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-02 11:01   ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-02 11:36   ` Stéphane Guedon
2012-01-02 12:37     ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-02 12:58       ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 13:12         ` Stéphane Guedon
2012-01-02 13:29           ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-01-02 14:26             ` Florian Philipp
2012-01-02 17:06               ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 18:16                 ` Kfir Lavi
2012-01-02 16:17 ` Stéphane Guedon

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