Using encrypted disks

[Tom London]

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