Le mardi 13 septembre 2011 à 21:14 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > For a single-user system, is it possible to pass through the decryption > password to later processes, to avoid needing to provide another password to > log in? I know you could set your display manager to auto-login, but that > doesn't get you an unlocked keyring. If your filesystem is encrypted, you can setup a password-less keyring. > Same question for multi-user systems. In the multi-user case, I'm fairly sure > it's possible to have multiple decryption pass-phrases. However in that case, > you would probably want a different encryption key for / as for each user's > $HOME. Otherwise, each user could decrypt each other's stuff: and the weakest > pass-phrase would be the weak-point for all users. I think this is mostly a non-issue. What use case are you trying to address precisely? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `-
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