On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 05:11:11PM +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: > Alle 16:49, domenica 22 maggio 2005, Johannes Weiner ha scritto: > > > Yeah encryption is not bad, but I wondered why to mount the disks at > > once at boottime and make the booting progress stop to enter the > > passphrase. You cand mount it manually after the boot..? > > > > Hannes > > Yes, of course... but if I want to mount all the partitions (home > included) and I use xdm, this operation can be a little bit > uncomfortable... > > The idea is: a script stop the boot process and ask me the password and > use this variable as input to cryptsetup... The password isn't stored > in the disc and the script mount the device... and it continues the > boot process... > But I have no idea how to do!
Write a script, that mounts all partitions. You can ask the passphrase with `read', but it will be seen on the screen when entering, no idea how to hide this. echo "Enter passphrase: " read PASS Now, $PASS holds the passphrase and you can use it with cryptsetup. HTH, hannes -- Today is Boomtime, the 69th day of Discord in the YOLD 3171
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