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spotslayer Offline

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Posted: July 01 2006,20:11

Good afternoon all, I have been away from DSL for quite a while now. I have alway carried my last install on a thumb drive which was 1.2. That thumb was lost. I have a brand new 5-way install of 3.01 on my new 256 cruzer. Man are there a lot of improvements. I am lost. I have some new stuff to learn. But enough of that. This is what I am trying to research. The fact that I lost my old drive gives me some concern. I would like to secure this new install as much as possible. I would really like to secure usb boot and embedded boot. If I lost this one I would really like the confidence that no one will be able to just plug it in and access my stuff. I would really like ideas and suggestions that will accomplish this.

David

roberts

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Posted: July 01 2006,21:42

We provide the boot option "protect" to triple des encrypt the backup file. It was made just for the pendrives. It has been around since dsl v1.1 see change log (Notes).

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Posted: July 01 2006,23:22

Great!! I wish I had payed better attention back then. That looks like just what I wanted. Is there any special setup to use this function? Do I just add it to the start files? I will just give it a try and see where I get. Thank's a bunch Roberts

David

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Posted: July 02 2006,18:51

Well I have a guestion(s) concerning this process. I have this configuration in one of my start files. A .des file is created and seems to work as it should.

fromhd=/dev/sda1 qemu frugal protect quiet modules=hdb nousb noscsi nofirewire atapicd noideraid noacpi acpi=off dma noapm noagp nomce

The question is that everytime the system starts I am prompted twice for a password. I just want to be sure this is the way things are suppose to work. For some reason I thought that once a password was issued I should only have to enter the password once at the next login. Do I have the configuration correct? Should I be prompted for the password twice at every login?

If I have things setup correctly then I am happy. If it could be improved I would sure like to know the way.

David