Don't mount luks partition at boot but with gdm login.

[Bill Davidsen]

Cor Legemaat wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I try to get a Fedora 18 laptop with an encrypted home partition to not
> mount at start up but when the user log into gdm with pam_mount. The
> encrypted partition is created during install by anaconda, just created
> an partition and set the mount point to the user's home directory with
> the option to encrypt the partition.
>
> What I tried in order to eliminate the requirement for the password at
> boot without success:
> 1) Via the gui disks utility in gnome and set it to not mount at start up.
> 2) Commented the relevant entry in /etc/fstab
> 3) Commented the entry in /etc/cryptab
>
> I see the pam mount options are also not added automatically to the
> files in /etc/pam.d/ but that's not a problem for me, that was also the
> case on my Gentoo system, will use that as guide. For now I only need to
> eliminate the password request at boot, any ideas?
>
Depending on the level of security you need, you might consider envfs. I thought 
I did this using "noauto" in fstab and allowing user mount, but at best that was 
a few releases ago.


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