On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:31:33AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: cryptsetup > Version: 2:1.0.6+20090405.svn49-1 > Followup-For: Bug #502772 > > reopen 502772 > retitle 502772 Associate usernames with passphrases; provide username > associated with passphrase used > thanks > > This bug report seems to have gotten closed based on an incorrect > interpretation of the original report. Reopening, retitling, and > re-requesting. > > The report makes the reasonable request that since an encrypted > filesystem can have multiple passphrases associated with it, those > passphrases could have associated usernames. Cryptsetup could then use > the passphrase provided to look up the associated username, and provide > that username to later phases of the boot process somehow, such as to > GDM to allow it to select that username for autologin. Thus, the user > would enter their passphrase to decrypt the disk, and not need to > subsequently log in with a username and password. > > That seems like a reasonable request, and it should not impact system > security in any way. > > - Josh Triplett
Dear Josh Triplett, you may also want to check libpam-mount if this suits your needs (although it requires some config on the machine). Kind regards Harald Jenny > > > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-cryptsetup-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-cryptsetup-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
