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[Joseph Loo]

On 09/27/2013 03:44 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 09/27/2013 02:22 PM, Patrick Dupre issued this missive:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I encripted one partition of a usb key.
>> When I plug it, it used to ask me about the paraphase, but after I
>> entered one time, the partition is mounted. Then, I can eject the
>> key, and replug it,
>> but it does not ask me anymore the paraphrase, mounting the partition
>> automatically.
>> I would like that it ask me the paraphrase every time that the key
>> in replugged.
>> How can I get this behavior?
>
> Did you actually eject or dismount the USB device (via the umount or
> eject commands or desktop options) or did you simply unplug it? If you
> unmounted or ejected it, I'd imagine you'd be asked for the passphrase
> the next time you mounted it. If it doesn't ask, then yeah, we have an
> issue--nothing having to do with that device should be cached.
>
> If all you did was unplug it, then the filesystem was never closed, the
> system never saw it as unmounted and the current mount is still valid.
> If that is the case, you're lucky it wasn't corrupted (you must have
> waited long enough between write operations for changes to be flushed
> to the device).
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did you check if the gnome key ring program is keeping the password so
that it will not prompt you. Generally, when you put the password, there
is a check on save the password.

This is my experience encfs

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Joseph Loo
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