Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

Hands-on lab – configuring the LUKS partition to mount automatically

In this lab, you'll set up the encrypted partition that you created in the previous lab to automatically mount when you reboot the machine:

This is where it would be extremely helpful to remotely log in to your virtual machine from your desktop host machine. By using a GUI-type terminal, be it Terminal from a Linux or macOS machine or Cygwin from a Windows machine, you'll have the ability to perform copy-and-paste operations, which you won't have if you work directly from the virtual machine terminal. (Trust me, you don't want to be typing in those long UUIDs.)

1. The first step is to obtain the UUID of the encrypted partition:

[donnie@localhost etc]$ sudo cryptsetup luksUUID ...