Following the spate of lost government laptops and hard drives in the UK recently, I decided to encrypt the /home partition on my laptop. And, no, it doesn't contain any state secrets ;) When I boot up, I now have to type in the passphrase to allow mounting of /home, as expected. What I would like to do is put a passphrase onto a USB memory stick, which would have to be present to allow the machine to boot properly. I have created a textfile on the memory stick called (for the sake of argument) /media/disk/this_is_my_passphrase, which contains the one line passphrase which I created with the following: # cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/sda3 /media/disk/this_is_my_passphrase How do get the system to mount the USB memory stick *before* it tries to mount /home, so that the alternative passphrase can be found? Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.0, Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default, KDE 4.1.2 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org