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jridgewell / Unlock

Unlock multiple Core Storage encrypted volumes at boot.
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When is the actual unlock happening? #4

Closed rsebbe closed 10 years ago

rsebbe commented 13 years ago

Thanks for sharing.

I tried it, and it works, but only if the external drive is plugged in when the computer is rebooting. Is this expected?

My use case is that I have 2 macs and my home dir is on an external drive. It does not seem to allow to plug the drive in at the login window and then log-in. Is that the case?

Thanks!

jridgewell commented 13 years ago

That's correct. The system launches the program as soon as it's loaded. That is before the normal login screen (It has the cloth background in Lion) but after the EFI login screen (That's the one you see if you enable FileVault in Lion).

As long as the external drive is plugged in before you hit the power button, everything should work properly. If you plug in the drive afterwards, there's no telling if the system has actually detected the encrypted volume before the program attempts to unlock it.

jridgewell commented 13 years ago

Now that I think about it, LaunchDaemons have a option to be called whenever external media is attached. A few edits to the program could allow you to unlock an external even after startup. I'll try and work on that.

rsebbe commented 13 years ago

Sounds great. Thanks!

BTW, here's a post I made some time ago that's a bit related (force mount location, auto eject drive when logging out). I'll update it if I can make that work with Lion encrypted drives. http://creaceed.blogspot.com/2011/01/home-on-external-drive-snow-leopard.html

Raphael

On 17 Aug 2011, at 09:50, jridgewell wrote:

Now that I think about it, LaunchDaemons have a option to be called whenever external media is attached. A few edits to the program could allow you to unlock an external even after startup. I'll try and work on that.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jridgewell/Unlock/issues/4#issuecomment-1824241