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.