January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening
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Disk encryption during operating system installation
When you install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or one of its offspring, you have the option of encrypting the drive. All you have to do is to click on a checkbox:
Other than that, I just let the installer create the default partitioning scheme, which means that the / filesystem and the swap partition will both be logical volumes. (I'll cover that in a moment.)
Before the installation can continue, I have to create a passphrase to mount the encrypted disk:
Now, whenever I reboot the system, I ...