Using encrypted disks
Tom London
selinux at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 01:07:06 UTC 2008
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:33:37 -0700,
> > Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been using multiple encrypted partitions on a USB hard drive for
> > > a while, but I haven't figured out how to get the LUKS/gnome-mount
> > > popup to identify the partition (it just identifies the drive).
> > >
> > > Any idea on how to do this?
> >
> > I am not sure what special about that casing is resulting in you not
> > getting prompted for a password, but udev (and its rules) would be
> > where you can customize this.
> >
> I think you misunderstand.
>
> I get prompted (via pop up window that identifies the drive and asks
> for the password). I attach a typical prompt window.
>
> The problem is that I have several encrypted partitions on the same
> drive. How am I to know which password to enter in each window?
>
> Any idea on how to customize the prompts to add the partition name,
> label, some identifying string, and/or the mount point?
>
I did some greps in /usr/bin: it looks like gnome-mount is responsible
for popping up this window for the password.
I'm guessing it has other useful information that it could add: mount
point, special file name, label, etc.
--
Tom London
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