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Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux



On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:06:54PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:22:35 -0500 Neil Watson
> <debian@watson-wilson.ca> wrote:
> 
> > http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/encrypted-storage.html
> > 
> 
> That's actually quite interesting. Storing the file in RAM. Now how to
> create a ramdisk is debian. There doesn't seem to be /dev/ram. I did a
> quick google search and found few tidbits stating that RAMDISK needs
> to be enabled in kernel?

Just mount a tmpfs.  Works fine until you swap unless your swap is
encrypted.

Here's my /tmp from fstab:

tmpfs		/tmp	tmpfs	size=2G		0	0

That's it.

My swap is encrypted.

Doug.


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