On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Lurkos <lurkos.usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Farkas Levente <lfarkas@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > my home directory is a luks encrypted volume. the key for this volume is > on > > my pendrive. before i'd like to login i just plug my pendrive and it > then: > > - udev recognize my pendrive > > - mount one of the partition on it (which hold the keyfile) > > - use the keyfile on the mounted partition and open the luks partirion > > - mount the device mapper as my home > > - umount my pendrive > > I can't help you in solving this problem, but I would be very > interested in knowing how you have realized this solution. > Can you explain me how to configure GNU/Linux (probably init scripts) > to realize this situation? > hi, first of all you need an udev rules to recognize your pendrive in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules. then you need one or two script to do the work. i actually create 4 separate script (because i use them from other places): home-up, home-down, luks-up, luks-down. and my home-* scripts also copy an ssh dsa key for root (so in this case my other scripts run as root has more power:-) unfortunately the deadlock still exist and i don't know the solution. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
