Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:30 -0700, Enrique Tebari Barragán Corte wrote:
>   
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I've succesfully created an encrypted partition on my USB-drive using
>> cryptsetup, and I can mount it throught the command line using pmount.
>> I want to know if there is a way to get gnome-volume-manager to ask
>> for my passphrase and mount my encrypted partition, like my
>> unencrypted one.
>>
>> I also noticed, thant when I try to manually mount it through
>> nautilus, that it starts pmount-hal wich starts pmount that starts
>> cryptsetup, and it hangs. I guess it's stuck since it's expecting that
>> I input the password somewhere.
>>     
>
> I think you're right with that. You could try to use gnome-mount, but I
> don't know what the state of that program is nowadays
Well, I took your suggestion and installed gnome-mount, but I have
problem. It does ask for my password, but gnome-mount  has a timeout
waiting for hal to setup the cleartext volume for my partition. The
thing is that, Hal does setup the cleartext volume in /dev/mapper, so it
must be that either Hal doesn't notify gnome-mount about the volume, or
gnome-mount can't receive the notification for some reason.

I'll do some more research tomorrow and if I manage to get it working,
I'll upload my PKGBUILD on the AUR.

One more thing. Hal's luks scripts have a variable called CRYPTSETUP,
which point to /sbin/cryptsetup. That's wrong, while cryptsetup.static
is located in /sbin, cryptsetup itself is in /usr/sbin.

The files are:
- hal-luks-remove
- hal-luks-setup
- hal-luks-teardown
which are located in /usr/share/hal/scripts and are owned by the Hal
package.

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Tebari

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