Quoting maarten van den Berg
On Sunday 01 August 2004 19:31, Dirk Schreiner wrote:
Hi Ralf,
i totally agree, if you have the Notebook of the Road-Warrior in mind. In this case you schould not forget to configure unmounting of the encrypted FS when going into screen-loc or sleeping Mode.
Hm. That sounds like overly paranoid. And in any case, how do you suppose one would go about umounting my encrypted /home partition when going into screen-lock mode ? You can't, unless you log out completely, which really defeats the whole purpose of locking the screen in the first place...
I don't believe such a step is necessary. You can break the screenlock with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, but then you're at the X login, still needing a password. If the attacker shuts off or reboots the machine, then the encrypted area is unmounted :-)