Delayed encrypted partition mount
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 10:03:45 UTC 2011
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 16:23 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 21.03.11 09:35, Bruno Wolff III (bruno at wolff.to) wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 16:22:59 +0200,
> > Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > My question is simple: Given the fact that I rarely encrypt the root,
> > > can I somehow delay the encrypted partition mount to right-before-gdm,
> > > so all the essential services (samba, nfs, cups) - especially network
> > > and sshd, will be up, so I can remotely type the password required to
> > > mount the encrypted partitions?
> >
> > I think under systemd there is a timeout and the system will continue to
> > boot without the encrypted devices being mounted.
>
> On systemd systems you can add "nofail" to the options in
> /etc/crypttab. If used systemd will automatically decrypt the device if
> it is plugged in (you will get a wall message telling you to enter the
> passphrase for that and how to do that), but if it isn't it won't delay
> bootup.
>
> Lennart
>
I'm not sure that we're talking about the same thing:
I'm talking about having /home decrypt failure / timeout being delayed
until GDM starts.
Would nofail help?
- Gilboa
More information about the devel
mailing list