On Wednesday 04 June 2003 12:02 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hello Robert > > Entering the password at bootup is the only draw-back for me. > The partition can be encrypted for with a single key for all users, as it > will be only me and my wife using it. The encryption is mainly intended to > keep third parties out (for example if the portable gets stolen) > > I'll take a look at mkcryptfs, sounds good. > Have you ever had trouble with your system crashing and the containers > getting damaged? My laptop sometimes hangs when it comes out of suspend... > Hey, try this trick. don't put your password in so that partition doesn't get mounted. Then go into RPMDRAKE and mount it from there. Real tough to get past eh? I have found in my setup, it doesn't challenge for the password and just mounts. Of course I'm sure you would have to be root to do that, but seems pretty lame to me. > > Kind regards > > Guy > > > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 02:59, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone has been using Encrypted partitions in > > > Mandrake yet, and if their experience has been good. > > > Do they come up right after a crash? > > > What filesystem works best on them? > > > > I use encrypted containers (files on a partition) that I build with the > > mkcryptfs script. I have 3 700 MB containers in my home directory > > (personal, work, and work archive), I picked this size, because once my > > archive container is full I can simply burn it to a CD and make a fstab > > entry for the file on the CD. > > > > mkcryptfs uses ext3 as the default filesystem in the containers. > > > > I do have the swap space set to encrypted as well. > > > > > I just bought a laptop, and I'm seriously considering to make the > > > home-directory encrypted... > > > > I chose against this just for the fact that during boot-up you need > > to enter the pass-phrase to access the partition or else it is not > > available, and you would then need multiple partitions for multiple > > users. > > > > -- > > ...Rob > > > > -- Putting the K in quality for 10^-2 centuries. > > > > ===================================================================== > > Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc > > President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada > > http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World > > ===================================================================== > > Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.21-0.13mdk-725ca > > > > 08:33:01 up 1:06, 4 users, load average: 1.10, 1.03, 1.01
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