Re: insserv & encrypted /home

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On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 21:55 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Short version: does anybody use cryptsetup and insserv at the same
> time
> successfully?
> 
> I recently re-installed Debian on my laptop because I wanted to
> repartition my hard drive and use an encrypted filesystem for /home.
> Everything went quite smooth, but after installing and configuring
> insserv, I am sometimes unable to enter the passphrase needed for
> mounting my encrypted /home.

You can also use a single password prompt to unlock the root partition
(/) and put a key for /home in /etc/crypttab (to open /home
automatically on start up).

Best,

Rob