I am not able to mount a bit locker partition or volume (tried both) in write mode on tumbleweed.
TIA.
Well BitLocker is proprietary Windows stuff. So unless someone reverse engineers it probably not soon:’(
I am referring to the open source s/w “dislocker”.
I am asking a honest Q; wasn’t expecting an irrelvant, snarky reply.
Was not aware of the program. It does not seem available on openSUSE but maybe it needs some one to package and maintain it.
Remember this stuff is all user supported.
The way a package (such as dislocker) gets added to the repo, is that somebody steps forward to maintain the package. And that means maintain for the long term, not just a one shot deal.
You could always volunteer.
Another option is to build the package yourself on OBS (Open Build Service), and perhaps make it available to others as an unofficial package.
Hi
It is already built by a couple of folks for Tumbleweed, last release was two years ago…
I would suggest this one;
Maybe that’s the one the OP used? If so, then would suggest direct contact with that repo maintainer (see the changes file for email).
The following is the Dislocker project page…
https://github.com/Aorimn/dislocker
From it,
Looks like there has been only one very non-critical improvement added (a month ago) since 2 years ago.
So, it’s likely that unless you want to be able to see your keys in clear text, the OBS release should be functional.
Otherwise,
It looks like it’s very easy to compile on your own…l
Just run the Fedora instructions replacing dnf with zypper on the following page
https://github.com/Aorimn/dislocker/blob/master/INSTALL.md
But, as I noted in your other thread, have another go at using bdemount…
TSU
I built from the source on github (project site). Built without problem but I get segmentation fault with core dump when I run dislocker with ANY options. No messages.
I downloaded the OBS binary package from one of the users’ home directory- same result, core dump.
There is a repository called “security” on opensuse, populated with OBS. It would be nice if this package could get there.
I have built rpms but I cannot remember where I got the spec from. Probably Fedora with a few changes. Builds fine, runs okay. I only use it because a client demands that USB sticks are BL encrypted. So the only thing I ever do is mount the stick, rsync the stuff to my laptop (disk is encrypted, of course) and umount it again. Stick was encrypted on Win7pro. The commands are somewhat non-intuitive but it works. Here is a snippet of what I do after connecting the stick
sudo dislocker-fuse -v -V /dev/sdb1 -u'XXX' /mnt/disk
sudo mount -o loop /mnt/disk/dislocker-file /mnt/bitlocker
rsync -av --delete /mnt/bitlocker/ /home/meown/blstick/
sudo umount /mnt/bitlocker
sudo umount /mnt/disk
the reverse sync works, too. So the stick is writable. CPU spikes and the stick gets quite hot