-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 March 2003 08:56, Sven Bergner wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ralf Nolden wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 22:08, Bob Tilley wrote: > > > I need to create a private partition to which files can be placed. > > > > > > Security needs to be enforced so that password entry is required. The > > > partition file system needs to be encrypted. > > > > > > Does KDE provide any tools suitable to this need? > > > > qparted maybe, I haven't looked. If you find out, please let me know so I > > can package it :-) > > qparted is a GUI for parted and AFAIK to use at own risk. All free software licenses state that the usage of free software is at your own risk (essentially) :-)
Please correct > me if I'm wrong. But you can use parted to change the size of existing > partions and to create a new one. You can also use resize.xyz to resize e.g. an ext3 partition. > After that you can use the cryptoloop kernel-module to produce a encrypted > partition. I think that's the way it works. More important however is if the KDE icons, when you click on a device icon, support passphrase entering when mounting a partition that has a passphrase lock. Ralf > > > Ralf > > > > > Any ideas are most appreciated! > > > > > > Bob Tilley > > Greetings, > Sven > -- > +-----------------------------------------------------+ > ! Sven Bergner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! > ! Registered Linux-User #65111 ! > +-----------------------------------------------------+ - -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+eYXWu0nKi+w1Ky8RAgI+AKC2ufl3zXRY+i+u3hNqM/5V36HKngCgoVjj fqzHNQcTrorkThxIa5VXPjI= =+fmM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
