Comments on: Mount TrueCrypt drive on boot time under Debian / Ubuntu

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:04:22 +0000

Me stupid… The Keyfile is on a usb-stick that might not be mounted at the time, the script runs… So now i’m googling for a solution.
Thanks for the hint!

By: rzelazko

rzelazko — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:11:27 +0000

Hi,
This script have been prepared for old version of Ubuntu. At the moment I can’t check it on current release. I’m not sure but I think there will be problems with Plymouth so try to delete

splash

option from

1	/etc/default/grub

then

1	update-grub

and then it should work – but not for sure.
Good luck

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:02:11 +0000

Hi, i tried your script, it wokrs fine when started manually, but doesn’t run on bootup. (Ubuntu 11.10) No error message shown. The only thing i changed is line 25:
truecrypt -t -k “keyfile” –password=”" –protect-hidden=no $TC_DEVICE $TC_MOUNT_POINT
and line 9: # Default-Stop: 0 1 6, because” update-rc.d tc defaults” gave me the following error:” warning: tc stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (1)”

Any idea what went wrong?

Greetings

By: Endebian

Endebian — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:30:46 +0000

Set the tc parameter –password=”" disable the password dialog on the console. Now it is possible to mount an tc volume during boot without any password dialog. Ensure that the system partition is also encrypted while using keyfile only. Thank you very much …

Endebian

By: Endebian

Endebian — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:39:21 +0000

The modification is done but it needs to push to confirm “no password”. Do you know how to include a bash ? My bash skills are very simple and i didn’t found anything similar on the net. Or is there a possibility to disable the password dialog?

Thanks in advance
Endebian

By: rzelazko

rzelazko — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:38:51 +0000

Of course there is possibility. To do this you need to modify this file

1	/etc/ini.d/tc

to use keyfiles instead of password.

By: Endebian

Endebian — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:55:45 +0000

If the xserver starts automatically the passwort dialog will not be displayed. Is there any possibility to add an command to proceed without entering a password (i’m using a keyfile for encryption which is located on the encrypted home partition ).

Thanks in advance
Endebian

By: rzelazko

rzelazko — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:52:33 +0000

There is a bug in script and password prompt works only if usplash is disabled.

By: robert

robert — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:23:45 +0000

Hallo,

i have installed the script on my ubuntu 9.10, but the password prompt does not appears….? why ?

By: n

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:22:25 +0000

thx, very useful