Bug 191622 - Parse cleartext password from KDM into user post-KDM script (e.g. for home directory encyption using Truecrypt)
Summary: Parse cleartext password from KDM into user post-KDM script (e.g. for home di...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 35396
Alias: None
Product: kdm
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdm bugs tracker
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Reported: 2009-05-04 23:07 UTC by Ralph
Modified: 2009-05-24 10:34 UTC (History)
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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 ***