-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-09-22 at 09:28 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
Simple: create an encrypted partition (ext3, reiser, xfs) using Yast. Tell it to mount using ID (in fstab options, perhaps). Better use a loooooooong password.
Ahh, I missed using the ID in fstab options. I saw it but didn't try anything.
For two reasons: 10.3 will use it, and because an usb device you will not know in advance which device it will get, so better define an invariant config line using ID. I prefer label, but label is not an option when encrypted.
(Note: I do not want to resort to the CLI to mount it.)
AFAIK, no way. Sorry.
As it is usb mounted, you can not use /etc/cryptotab to mount it during boot, but fstab. And as you need to enter a password, you can not use a GUI unless somebody writes it first. I'm not aware in any not interested in finding it :-P
And things are a bit different in 10.3, I hear.
Hmm...maybe I'll put 10.3 on the laptop then. I do need to redo my partitions anyway, so that might be a good time.
I'd want to simply put the key in and have it pop up with the unencrypted partition (as it does) and then ask for my password for the encrypted one. It would seem that's the obvious method of using such things.
But somebody has to create such a gadget. You can open a bugzilla as a feature request. Notice that the encrypted partition is not automatically detected as such, it needs a precise config file with the proper options. I suppose it might be doable, but notice the lack of general interest in this thread and consider it as a measure of how many people would want such a gui (they are not even interested in encrypted partitions, it seems). I'd frankly prefer developers "wasting" sometime writing a proper howto doc, than writing a gui.
This has been a real challenge. I'm suprised at the lack of robustness in the GUI for such things. Even TrueCrypt has a GUI for Wintendo but I have to downgrade to 1980's-era CLI for the Linux version.
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