loop-AES and ubuntu

[Alexander Poslavsky]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:59:30 +0100, Christoph Siess <chs at geekhost.info> wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:26:38PM +0200, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> > I did a write-up af what could become a complete howto, would this be usefull??
> >
> > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/EncryptedFilesystemHowto
> 
> Great work, I just updated the Wiki with some information on how to use
> /etc/fstab with crypto loop.

it is possible to mount your hom-directory through it, but only with
ups or a laptop (you don't want to loose power on an encrypted
file-system), so i can't test it.

from the web:
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put in fstab something like:

/dev/hdc11 /home ext2 noexec,nodev,noauto,encryption=blowfish,user
0 0

Then when you want to mount say home partition, type at a prompt

mount /home

You will then be asked for your passphrase, once entered your partition
will be mounted for use. If you have problems with this make sure the
loop and cryptoloop modules are already loaded first, maybe add them th
modprobe.conf or rc.modules.

if you ever do this you could add it also, i do not want to add it untested

greets, AP