Comments on: Encrypted home and swap partition on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

By: Ad

Ad — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:42:50 +0000

Same here with 9.10. It didnt ask for a password on boot time, it just throw error messages complaining about not mounted encrypted partition.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:35:34 +0000

I’m having the same problem as everyone else on 9.10, it doesn’t ask for the key at bootup on the gdm display but does ask it on the first tty. It won’t work when I try to mount it as /home.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:01:26 +0000

Hi!

I was just wondering, when will you write about encryption on home and automounting it on login, as you stated at the bottom. I am eagerly wating!

By: anon

anon — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:40:50 +0000

worked for me (swap partition only, didn’t try to encrypt home). thanks for the excellent tutorial

By: gianni

gianni — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:17:40 +0000

if you use the alternate disc it will be done automagically, Im using 9.10 xubuntu… with encrypted home & swap + /tmp on ramdisk

By: Willie

Willie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:35:04 +0000

It sure doesn’t work for me.

It worked flawlessly in 9.04 when the boot process would pause while you entered your encryption password under the ubuntu boot splash logo. Enter it correctly and the boot process would continue so you would log in transparently with an encrypted /home partition.

In 9.10, using the exact same setup process, something corrupts somewhere. The luks password prompt doesn’t appear on the graphical boot screen but on virtual console #1.
Also the boot process doesn’t halt while you enter this password but continues to the graphical user login, with no mounted home partition available.
Also, even after entering the password, virtual terminals 1-6 are subsequently unavailable to users.

I’m about the set up an encrypted partition on a 9.04 machine to try and see where the differences are in the boot process.

By: Artur

Artur — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:23:57 +0000

Very good tutorial, thanks!

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:56:37 +0000

Yes i can confirm this does work. I have been using this setup since karmic alpha 6 without a problem. The only problems i experienced were related to the /tmp partition which was formatted on boot. Ubuntu sometimes stopped booting waiting for crypto /tmp so i stopped using a encrypted /tmp for now. I unlock my /home partition with lib pam mount once the user logs in via GDM which works really well.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:00:23 +0000

Does this really work on Ubuntu 9.10? I already tried this very set-up (which I did following the instructions in http://blog.gnist.org/article.php?story=EncryptedSwapAndHomeUbuntu ) but Ubuntu 9.10 doesn’t ask me for the password for cryptohome when booting up.