Susan Dittmar wrote:
On an openSUSE 11.3 laptop, I set up all hard disk partitions (in the easiest case just root and swap) as encrypted partitions using luks as described in http://en.opensuse.org/SBD:Encrypted_root_file_system
Uh, that article should probably be removed. The preferred method to have an encrypted root is to just click the checkbox in yast during installation.
But my boss wants to insert the memstick at boot time, then remove it as soon as booting is done. Then he wants to insert it again for supend to disk. In principle that's fine with me. The problem with this is that
Sounds cumbersome and error prone. What's wrong with suspending to the built in hard disk?
So here's my question: As luks already prompted for the passphrase during boot, is there a way to access this passphrase during this re-mount of the memstick's swap partition? Any way of keeping this partition's information although the memstick is removed (and re-attached) in the time between boot and suspend-to-disk?
The passphrase is gone when cryptsetup finishes. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org