Disk encryption in F9

[Bill Davidsen]

Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> writes:
> 
>> Jan Welker wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I created multiple encrypted partitions on my Fedora 9 system. All
>>> of them do have the same password. But I have to enter the password
>>> for each partition (all together 3 times). Is there a way to enter
>>> one password for all partitions since they are all the same?
>> Not yet. This is filed as a RFE at
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446567
>>
>> Rahul
> 
> That has been an issue for a while, at least for me, under prior
> versions of Fedora using dm-crypt/luks.
> 
> With F9, I took a different approach, which was to create a clear
> partition for /boot and then use LVM to create an encrypted partition group
> for everything else (eg. /, /home, etc.).
> 
> Thus, I only get prompted once for the LUKS passphrase at boot.
> 
I get prompted at boot, but I would have expected to be prompted when 
the f/s was mounted. I wanted to have certain users in a secure f/s, 
/home/secure/USER, where /home/secure was mounted with automount when 
one of those users logged in. I won't say it can't work that way, just 
that right now it doesn't. ;-)

Otherwise FC9 looks acceptably smooth for a new release.

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