On Thursday 2008-04-24 21:00, 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#Creat... 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.
There is no problem in having auto-keyed encrypted swap in 10.3, I have it on all partitions. Just set it up in /etc/crypttab: swap1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-fooobar-part1 /dev/urandom swap -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org