Bug 191622

Summary:	Parse cleartext password from KDM into user post-KDM script (e.g. for home directory encyption using Truecrypt)
Product:	kdm	Reporter:	Ralph <R.Clark.01>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Ralph 2009-05-04 23:07:15 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I'm trying to get my home directory encrypted using Truecrypt so that I only need to enter one password to both login to KDE and also to mount the encrypted Truecrypt volume.

For this I need to obtain the password that is entered by me when I login at KDM, so that the password can be used by a script to mount the encrypted home directory and then allow login to KDE to work as normal.

Hence I am requesting the addition of an option in KDM to allow the parsing of the plaintext password to a KDE init script.

At present, the best way possible to do this is to run a script when X starts to run zenity and prompt for a password for Truecrypt there, and then the user has to enter another password in KDM to login to KDE.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2009-05-24 10:34:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 35396 ***