From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:26:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F01BE82.1010601@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120102132931.36bbfd6f@digimed.co.uk>
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Am 02.01.2012 14:29, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> 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.
>
>
dmcrypt supports multiple simultaneous passwords (I think 4 or something
like that). Of course, then every user can unlock every home directory
and auto-login is a no-go anyway.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-02 14:27 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
2012-01-02 14:26 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
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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