January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening
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Configuring the LUKS partition to mount automatically
The only missing piece of the puzzle is to configure the system to automatically mount the LUKS partition upon boot-up. To do that, I'll configure two different files:
- /etc/crypttab
- /etc/fstab
Had I not chosen to encrypt the disk when I installed the operating system, I wouldn't have a crypttab file, and I would have to create it myself. But, since I did choose to encrypt the drive, I already have one with information about that drive:
luks-2d7f02c7-864f-42ce-b362-50dd830d9772 UUID=2d7f02c7-864f-42ce-b362-50dd830d9772 none
The first two fields describe the name and location of the encrypted partition. The third field is for the encryption passphrase. If it's set to none, as it is here, ...