On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 21:12 +0330, a dehqan wrote: > > In The Name Of God The compassionate merciful > > Good day everyone ; > Thanks for your attentioIn ; > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM, <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I imagine it is likely that it is really actually the data on > your hard drive you wish to secure, in which case you are > going about it the wrong way, you should encrypt your home > partition which would require a password to be entered at boot > when linux attempts to mount your home partition, that way all > your browsing habits and personal data will be secure if > someone gets their hands on your hardware. > > According to this page how to enable FDE ? > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Full_Disk_Encryption_(FDE) > > Then in the middle of page is written : > > TPM > It should be possible to use TPM (with fingerprint readers...) not > tested yet. > > * T61 with TPM & fingerprints, FDE password works with a > configured fingerprint but you must use windows based software > to program the imprint. By keeping a small windows partition, > I am able to boot linux with a fingerprint, fingerprint passes > the TPM power-on password AND the FDE disk 1 password, which > is separate. > He/She has mntioned that it is possible to use ,but how ? > > Regards dehqan >
Ignore that method, it involves using Windows software, if it is indeed only the personal data in you home directory you are wishing to secure with encryption as I previously suggested, you should use a method such as this: http://polishlinux.org/howtos/encrypted-home-partition-in-linux/ Using this method you can use PAM to decrypt your partition upon login, and since fprint is integrated into PAM you can authenticate using a fingerprint device. I suggest you use Fedora 11 which already ships a fingerprint enabled gdm. Michael _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
