[PATCH] mounting encrypted devices infrastructure

Tobias Koenig tokoe at kde.org
Mon Feb 16 20:15:25 GMT 2004


On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:56:31PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, David Faure wrote:
Hi Adriaan,

> > Looks fine to me. But if the support for this requires something platform/kernel/tools-specific
> > (I guess it does), then it would be good to hide or disable this checkbox when the system
> > doesn't support it, to prevent confusion.
> 
> Your favorite KDE-is-not-Linux guy is on the case. That is, if I can
> figure out how GEOM works and set up an encrypted volume here.
GEOM? Is this the encryption mechanism in FreeBSD?
Does the mount command in FreeBSD also ask the user for a password when
mounting an encrypted device and has it the '--pass-fd' commandline
argument?

Ciao,
Tobias
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