Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[webstain]

Hi guys

Currently using puppy 5.0 GREAT - the only hing is that I did not create a pwd for the first reboo and need to add one now for bootup.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards to the team, great forum

Jean Marc

[Flash]

How did you install Puppy? (Full install? Frugal? USB flash memory?)

Most computers nowadays have the option to require a password to boot the computer at all, no matter what the operating system. If available, this option is found in the computer's BIOS configuration. What exactly do you want to do, share a computer or just keep people from seeing what's on your computer?

[webstain]

Hello

It is a install on a USB harddrive that I am carrying around all the time and I do not want anybody having access to my info if they steal it from me and hook it up. So I need a pwd to protect my puppy session boot on that hard drive.

Thanks again for the help

Regards

Jean Marc

[Lobster]

Hi Jean Marc

Boot from the USB keydrive
when it says boot:
type p (you have 5 seconds)
then continue typing (you have unlimited time now) so you have:
puppy pfix=ram

Setup Puppy and save any data
Press Menu / Shutdown / reboot

Now it will offer to save your data and use encryption
Choose heavy encryption
During this process you will be prompted for a password

Don't forget your password
your data is encrypted and password protected

[webstain]

Thanks for the advice but maybe I did not express myself correctly

Puppy 5.0 is installed and running out of a USB Hard Drive and I am using it as my Portable OS/Computer where ever I go.

I did not chose to save the profile file with encryption at the first reboot but need to activate it now to protect that puppy volume

Thanks again for your help guys

Regards

[jamesbond]

If all you want is to have a boot-up password (ie, password asked when you boot your puppy from your portable harddisk), all you have to do is to edit your /etc/inittab so that it looks like this:

[smokey01]

Folder Protection/Ecryption

I wonder If some smart person could get this working in puppy.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/crypt-manager-an-encrypted-folder-manager-for-ubuntu-linux.html

or

http://code.google.com/p/crypt-manager/

Apparently three files are required they are:

1. conceal_0.0.5-0ubuntu1-all.deb
2. conceal_gtk-0.0.5-0ubuntu1-all.deb
3. nautilus-conceal_0.0.5-0ubuntu1-all.deb

I suppose file number 3. would need to be rewritten to work with ROX.

Unfortunately this needs python which is quite large.

I think this would be a very useful tool for many.

[jamesbond]

Sounds like a project. The conceal thing is only a GUI for encfs, here http://www.arg0.net/encfs. Encfs itself is very easy to build with minimal dependency, and we can do the GUI with a combination of gtkdialog and Xdialog to do the same thing.

[2lss]

If your using grub as a bootloader you can set it up to prompt for a password.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=7353

[smokey01]

I found something here that master_wrong was working on. Looks pretty good but has a couple of small bugs that need to be ironed out.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=311693#311693

[p310don]

haven't tried this, but can you remaster the puppy cd from what you have installed, then, making sure that remaster works and has all your info, there is an option to make sure all your personal stuff gets copied in dougal remaster, then format the portable harddrive and reinstall in set your save file to heavy encryption with a password a la lobster's method

[jamesbond]

Thanks smokey01 for the info - but I have a different idea of implementing it. Rather than having a central location to keep the list of encrypted directories (btw - this is the same approach taken by conceal-gtk as well), I would rather have an ability to encrypt/decrypt directories on demand.

cheers!

[Lobster]

This directory encrypter has been coded and released
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=421268#421268

[smokey01]

[jamesbond]

Yes, but that's not what I mean. Perhaps I don't say it clearly enough.

I would like to be able to go to any folder in Rox, right-click it, and choose "encrypt" from the popup menu. I will be asked for a password - and after that my folder will be encrypted. Similar functionalities for "open encrypted folder" and "close encrypted folder". Of course, once I'm tired with this stuff, I can always choose "decrypt" and remove all encryption, turning it back to a normal folder.

I've completed some scripts to do exactly that - I just need to clean it up and make it a little bit prettier. It depends only on EncFS (just like the conceal stuff) and Xdialog - a whooping 12K uncompressed no python stuff.

cheers!