Fedora 7 encrypted root partition

[Till Maas]

On Friday 19 January 2007 23:37, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> While Jermey brings up some issues in his response, there are a lot of
> people that control the whole machine and don't need different encryption
> for different files and for which being able to stack their preferred file
> system with dmcrypt (and keeping things like write barriers working
> properly) would be a good thing. I don't think you need X working to be

For these people it may be worth to take a look at pam_mount which I use to 
mount an encrypted /home whenever I login. It uses the login password to open 
the encrypted partition and has a mount wrapper script that ensures that the 
filesystem is fscked regulary or when it is dirty.

Regards,
Till