Re: [SLUG] secure boot

From: Matthew Burke (matthew@textbox.net)
Date: Sat Jul 23 2005 - 08:09:53 EDT


On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:20 -0400, chris lee wrote:
> basically im trying to find a way to make my computer only work if a
> certain SD card is installed.
>
> i also want all the data in that computer locked so that if the drive
> is installed in another computer or a LiveCD is used the data will be
> completely unviewable.
>
> is this possible?

I have my home partition encrypted, asking for a password on boot (SUSE
9.2). While without the password one could still access the system, my
files in home are somewhat safe (depending on the lengths one would go
to in order to access the files)

Matt

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