Ubuntu
ubiquity package

you can not encrypt partitions installing from desktop-CD

Bug #532890 reported by hvoss
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #106741: no crypto filesystem support. Edit Remove
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

It's (at least for notebooks) essential to encrypt /home, Swap, /tmp and /var to prevent that unauthorized persons can access your intimate data. The best way to ensure this is to encrypt everything but /boot.
The "Desktop"-CDs of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu do not allow encrypted /-partitions and do not allow encrypted swap partitions.

To reproduce this bug:
Try to install Ubuntu using a key-encrypted (dm-crypt) root partition (/), a random-key-encrypted swap partition and a unencrypted /boot partition using the Ubuntu-, Kubuntu- or Xubuntu-Desktop-CD.

Solution:
Give all the encryption possibilities of the "alternate"-CDs to "desktop"-CD-users.

Revision history for this message
Evan (ev) wrote :

Encrypted swap is enabled automatically when you select the encrypted home option.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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hvoss (hvoss) wrote :

This error still occurs in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Beta 1.

@Evan Dandrea: Encrypted $HOME and swap don't help too much if /tmp and /var are unencrypted.

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hvoss (hvoss) wrote :

This error still occurs in Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Beta.

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