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Re: Mounting a user partition under /home at login

nelz — Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:33 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:33 pm

You might be better off with a single, unencrypted, home filesystem and then use ecryptfs to encrypt the individual home directories. This is the method Ubuntu uses and each home directory is mounted when the user logs in and unmounted when they log out.

Re: Mounting a user partition under /home at login

johnhudson — Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:44 pm

Author: johnhudson

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:44 pm

Looking at the example pam configuration files on my setup, there is no entry to limit access to part of a filesystem.

Access control tends to be to hosts, ports, etc. rather than to partitions (which is controlled by file attributes).

Mounting a user partition under /home at login

jlturriff — Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:52 pm

Author: jlturriff

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:52 pm

Hi,
On my 12.2 x86_64 machine, each user has a separate, encrypted partition that currently gets mounted at boot-up, no matter which user is going to login. I would like to have a user's partition mount at login time instead, so that the authorizations for all of the partitions do not have to be entered at boot-up.

I believe that this can be accomplished using pam-mount, but I have not been able to puzzle out the right way to do it, though I have read through the pam documentation several times.

Does anyone here know how to make this work?

Leslie