On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:07:28PM +0100, Alexander Farber wrote: > On 12/1/05, Zachery Hostens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > he is saying use a random key for the disk. and encrypt this key with your > > password. so changing your account password you just have to re-encrypt > > the disk key. > > Where will that random disk key be kept? > > And isn't user password encrypted one way, > so you won't be able to decrypt the disk key > when changing the user password? > >
I have a bit similar setup on my notebook. The key is encrypted to myself using gnupg and after sucessful decryption piped to a modified version of vnconfig (reads key from stdin, the original version does not do this). Tobias
