I have a requirement that necessitates that I encrypt the home partition. Is there any way to get this to work without the requirement of console access at boot to enter a password? I need to be able to run headless also, make initial login via ssh and subsequently mount the encrypted partition.
Thanks
Gary
sherwingws schrieb:
> I have a requirement that necessitates that I encrypt the home
> partition. Is there any way to get this to work without the requirement
> of console access at boot to enter a password? I need to be able to run
> headless also, make initial login via ssh and subsequently mount the
> encrypted partition.
I haven’t actually tried this myself, but it should Just Work if you
set the encrypted partition not to be mounted automatically. Just
make sure you have an account with a home directory outside the home
partition to which you can login while it is not yet mounted.
Logins to an account whose home directory isn’t present would fail.
HTH
T.
Tilman:
Ok then, I am in the process of trying it.
I have created an encrypted /home and an unencrypted /home0. After installation, I will edit fstab, to not mount /home at boot, and set the test user id to have a “home” directory in /home0/whatever. Then I will see if I am subsequently able to mount the encrypted /home directory via su or sudo. Will post my results, when I have tested it.
Thanks.
Gary