Lock FreeBSD partitions

Mark Felder feld at feld.me
Tue May 22 13:25:39 UTC 2012


On Tue, 22 May 2012 02:06:25 -0500, mahdieh salamat  
<mahdieh.salamat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all. I don't know I should ask my question here or not,I want to lock  
> my
> partitons by geli or gbde, but I want that after boot users don't force  
> to
> enter the passphrase. In other wise the partitions are locked but seems
> that they aren't lock. I need it for security that if any one try to  
> mount
> partitions by CD or flash can't do it.
> Thanks

Are you saying you want them encrypted but automatically decrypted during  
the boot process, but if someone tries to load the system via a LiveCD or  
other method they wouldn't be able to mount the partitions without the  
passphrase?


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