Re: Knoppix encrypted home dir on other distros (resolved)

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Author: Matt Alexander
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To: PLUGAZ
Old-Topics: Knoppix encrypted home dir on other distros
Subject: Re: Knoppix encrypted home dir on other distros (resolved)
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Matt Alexander wrote:

> I've setup an encrypted home directory on my USB thumbdrive that was
> created under Knoppix. It would be krazy kool if I could use the same
> home dir under my Fedora or Debian boxes. Anyone know how I might boot
> Fedora or Debian and have it mount the encrypted home dir created by
> Knoppix?


Just in case anyone was wondering how to do this too, here's how I did it:

I recompiled my kernel after patching with loop-AES:
http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net

Next, I patched linux-utils with loop-AES and rebuilt "losetup" to support
256-bit AES.

Now I can mount my Knoppix home directory:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
losetup -e aes256 /dev/loop0 /mnt/usb/knoppix.img
mount /dev/loop0 /home/myhomedirhere

I then modified /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (Fedora) to do this during boot.
~M

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