Automatically mount encrypted filesystems at login with pam_mount
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 160.14.123.98]
on November 06, 2008 04:53 PM
Hello,
I'm entirely new to encrypted filesystems. I first came to this article because I saw the benefit it could give at work: each user can have their network shares mounted on login, most notably Novell/Samba shares that depend on a specific login/password.
Then, the article eventually drew my attention on the topic of encrypted filesystems because it all seams so seamless this way!
On the other hand, I wonder: it is a good practice to change your account's password regularly, but if you set the encryption passphrase to your account's password, then upon change, it won't be as seamless… or will it?
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Automatically mount encrypted filesystems at login with pam_mount
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 160.14.123.98] on November 06, 2008 04:53 PMI'm entirely new to encrypted filesystems. I first came to this article because I saw the benefit it could give at work: each user can have their network shares mounted on login, most notably Novell/Samba shares that depend on a specific login/password.
Then, the article eventually drew my attention on the topic of encrypted filesystems because it all seams so seamless this way!
On the other hand, I wonder: it is a good practice to change your account's password regularly, but if you set the encryption passphrase to your account's password, then upon change, it won't be as seamless… or will it?
Yves.
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