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Re: [opensuse] enrypted swap without password?
  • From: Jan Ritzerfeld <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:00:06 +0200
  • Message-id: <200804242100.06638.suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 schrieb Daniel Bauer:

I'd like to have an encrypted swap partition, but without asking me for a
password when booting.

I tried two different approaches:

- http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO
did as described (in regard of swap), all worked fine, except that I
had to enter the password when booting. So "undid" what I did, and
[...]

You should use a random key. Go to the article's Talk-Page:
http://en.opensuse.org/Talk:Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO#Create_an_encrypted_swap_partition
However, there seems to be some problems with 10.3, thus, please read the
following sections of the above mentioned article and the bug report
mentioned there, too.

HTH
Jan
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