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FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 239

[Solved] Decrypt home when user logs in

Following the wiki setting up an encrypted home partition I am still a bit unsatisfied. I use dm-crypt, currently decrypting at boot time, which means I have to enter the HDD password first and then my user password when I login. I'd like to skip the first one. One prerequisite would be to use the same password for the HDD and the user (we are talking about a single-user system here). I thought about this and I don't really see any severe security implications for me.
So is there an approach how to do this?

Last edited by FlowIt (2017-07-24 13:59:49)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,017

Re: [Solved] Decrypt home when user logs in

Did you see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pam_mount ?

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FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 239

Re: [Solved] Decrypt home when user logs in

No I didn't. But it works like a charm. Solved.