I'm not sure if anyone has covered this, but the following pdf was very useful for me to encrypt my home dir:
www.flyn.org/docs/ehd.pdf The interesting part was using openssl to encrypt the key and then using your account's linux password to encrypt the openssl file. This way, you can change your account password and without having to change the encrypted filesystem password/key (in the example, they create a very random key for the encrypted filesystem and then use pam_mount to automatically decrypt and mount the filesystems during login). HTH, -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
