On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:28:45AM -0700, Sam Halliday wrote:
> Tomas Zerolo wrote:
> >
> >> If there were a way to prompt the user for the password to an encrypted
> >> drive on startup for all OS, with an equivalent for headless machines...
>
> There is a difference between "it's possible" and "there is". I know of no
> such standard support of either of the standard OSes.
For the record, in Debian Linux you can setup an encrypted root FS
during installation and it will ask to a password on every boot.
Have a nice day,
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