Archive for the ‘GNU Linux’ Category.
September 14, 2009, 23:06
This post describes how to encrypt the home directory of your users on GNU Linux with the help of TrueCrypt and PAM using the login-password as encryption key.
I wrote about Automatic encryption of home directories using TrueCrypt before. This time we'll use TrueCrypt 6.2a. Futhermore we'll use Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and we replaced pam_mount by pam_exec. For convenience this post will be selfcontained (ie. I copy redundant parts from the old one).
Continue reading 'Automatic encryption of home directories using TrueCrypt 6.2a and pam_exec' »
March 3, 2009, 20:50
Recently, I was trying to move some stuff from RCS to mercurial. There does not seem to exist a converter and since it was only a few revisions, I decided to do it by hand. The problem arose how to set the commit date manually and google yielded a nice blog post that answered my question (refering to the formidable but less searchable hgbook).
Continue reading 'Usage of hg commit –date (mercurial)' »
February 24, 2009, 18:35
This entry was originally submitted to Debian Package of the day, but rejected because make is well known.
I agree that most programmers and administrators know GNU make. Sadly, it is ignored by most others. GNU make solves a very common problem that everyone faces when processing more than one file with more than one programm. It keeps track which file has been changed and which files have to be regenerated.
Continue reading 'Makefiles for LaTeX' »
August 19, 2008, 17:45
This post describes how to encrypt the home directory of your users on GNU Linux with the help of TrueCrypt and PAM using the login-password as encryption key.
I wrote about Automatic encryption of home directories using TrueCrypt before. This time we'll use TrueCrypt 6.0a which is a bit different from 4.3a used last time. Futhermore we'll use Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron instead of Debian Etch. For convenience this post will be selfcontained (ie. I copy redundant parts from the old one).
Continue reading 'Automatic encryption of home directories using TrueCrypt 6.0a' »
July 12, 2008, 16:59
Having your private data on a laptop is dangerous, since it might be stolen. The only way to protect your data is to encrypt it. This post describes how to encrypt the home directory of your users on GNU Linux with the help of TrueCrypt and PAM. For convenience the login-password is used as encryption key. Continue reading 'Automatic encryption of home directories using TrueCrypt' »
