Re: cryptsetup, hald and automounting external disk

["Michal R. Hoffmann" <misiek_spam@o2.pl>]

On 04/12/08 21:28, subscriptions wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using cryptsetup (LUKS) successfully on most of my partitions (i.e.
> not /boot) and external disk drives.
>
> For the external drives, HALD recognises the LUKS encrypted partition
> and prompts for a password.
>
> Does anybody know where I can configure the system such that the
> external disk is automatically decrypted with encryption keys and
> mounted.

In Gnome the password dialog gives a user 3 options for the password:
- forget immediately
- remember till logout
- remember 'forever'

Debian sid. I don't know what do you use - any window manager? I believe 
KDE has a similar option.

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Kind regards,
Michal R. Hoffmann