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From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:56:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2rcgx6y.fsf@yamatai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d90905feac53ae8ed431c7428baf09ae87013658.camel@wine-logistix.de>

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Ellen Papsch <ellen.papsch@wine-logistix.de> skribis:

> Am Freitag, den 03.04.2020, 18:13 +0200 schrieb Pierre Neidhardt:
>>
>> By the way, is it possible to use the user password to unlock the
>> $HOME partition?
>> 
>
> AFAIK GNU/Linux userland does not support it. GDM or another login
> manager would have to integrate that feature somehow. Maybe (maybe)
> there is some PAM way, but that's a wild guess.
>

You can use the pam-mount service to mount paritions when users log in.

There's an example in the manual for a user mounting their encrypted
'/home/user' directory. And if the user's password matches one of the
passwords that can decrypt the partition, you don't have to enter it
twice.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-03 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-02  8:59 Unencrypted boot with encrypted root Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-03 15:32 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-03 15:44 ` Ellen Papsch
2020-04-03 16:13   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-03 17:16     ` Ellen Papsch
2020-04-03 19:56       ` Guillaume Le Vaillant [this message]
2020-04-04  9:02         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-17 15:39         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-20  8:49           ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2020-05-20  9:42             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-03 19:44   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-04  8:12     ` Ellen Papsch
2020-04-04 10:18       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-06 12:00         ` Ellen Papsch
2020-04-07  9:46           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-07 11:34             ` Ellen Papsch
2020-04-07 20:19               ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-08 12:37                 ` Ellen Papsch
2020-04-07 15:05             ` Alex Griffin
2020-04-07 16:47               ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-04-08 12:25                 ` Ellen Papsch
2020-04-08 15:07                   ` Alex Griffin
2020-04-08 16:22                   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-04-08  7:57               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-08 12:19                 ` Alex Griffin

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