4 Nov
2020
4 Nov
'20
7:29 p.m.
I've been using LUKS for a long time on several
different distributions,
all with TDE installed. So this conversation has made me curious how TDE
having ‘support for unlocking / locking encrypted disks’ is different than
what is currently in use?
The way TDE 14.0.9 currently works (on my machine at
least) is that when I plug in an encrypted
external USB drive, Konqueror will ask for a password to unlock it, but upon entering the
password it will report an error. So what I do is use a script that unlocks the LUKS
device and
mounts it*, at which point Konqueror again asks for a password to unlock the device except
now
that the device has been unlocked it mounts it correctly. I now wonder whether you know a
way to
bypass the need of unlocking/mounting the drive using a script?
Janek
*) Now that I wrote it I'm wondering whether the mounting step is necessary.