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[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 24 April 2008 21.00:06, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
> 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#Crea
> te_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

Thanks again Jan, 

doing it step by step as explained in the page you mentioned and ignoring the 
note "This doesn't appear to work in openSUSE 10.3..." :
http://en.opensuse.org/Talk:Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO#Create_an_encrypted_swap_partition
(and *not* where I looked first: 
http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO )

It just works fine now. swap is encrypted and running and I am not asked for a 
password at boot. No warning messages seen during boot or later in 
in /var/log/boot.msg or /var/log/messages. 

regards

Daniel
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