Hi Folks, One of my users connected a portable disk to his Leap 15.6 system that had an encrypted partition from a Windows Bitlocker pea sea. KDE announced the connection and prompted for the Bitlocker password! It worked! I've used Dislocker in the past, but had no idea it was built into KDE nowadays. I thought I'd mention it here in case others haven't heard about it either. Regards, Lew
On 8/23/24 22:16, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Hi Folks,
One of my users connected a portable disk to his Leap 15.6 system that had an encrypted partition from a Windows Bitlocker pea sea.
KDE announced the connection and prompted for the Bitlocker password! It worked! I've used Dislocker in the past, but had no idea it was built into KDE nowadays. I thought I'd mention it here in case others haven't heard about it either.
Regards, Lew
That is why we all use Linux. It is WAY smarter than Windows ever was or will be. For years I have done some dual boots. Linux can see and use the windows "drive" but Windows has no clue that Linux is there. -- Vox populi Vox Dei
On 8/24/24 6:48 AM, Bill Walsh wrote:
That is why we all use Linux. It is WAY smarter than Windows ever was or will be. For years I have done some dual boots. Linux can see and use the windows "drive" but Windows has no clue that Linux is there.
I've always found that a great security "feature". For laptops, win has to be /dev/sda, put Linux on /dev/sdb and use the boot-select feature to choose the drive -- 99.9% of people never know /sdb exists, much less what to do with it :) Now August Windows patch Tuesday wiped out a good number dual-boot boxes as the MS patch wiped out secure boot for the Linux OS's (as usual a patch to fix what the prior patch broke -- is in work...) See: Microsoft's Patch Tuesday borks dual-boot Linux-Windows PCs https://go.reg.cx/tdml/dfd67/66ef5dff/ce3cea61/4e2q -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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