On Wednesday 09 April 2008 12:36:57 Andrew Farris wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > During install I was asked to give a password for encrypting the disk(s). > > In the rawhide box there are two hard disks, and both were encrypted. > > Did I get the chance to set different passwords for the two disks? I > > can't remember. If I didn't, there isn't much sense in asking me for each > > disk's password, but I wonder what circumstances are envisaged where you > > might want different encryption on the two disks? > > If you created them as separately encrypted filesystems then yes, you did > get the chance to set each password. If it is two disks or multiple > partitions using a single filesystem then no. > There is only one file-system on that box. > I could foresee having a separate filesystem for each user with different > encryption, for which you'd want to set the passwords differently. (ala > OSX's filevault home directories) > That makes sense. However, at the time I wrote my mind was on my single-filesystem installation. It just doesn't feel sensible to have to give the password twice in this case. Anne
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