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ubiquity package

no crypto filesystem support

Bug #106741 reported by Lennart Hansen
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Nominated for Lucid by mclaud2000

Bug Description

While having a work laptop, I need to have an encrypted /home partition where all my work relates stuff is on, however, I'm not able to easily install Feisty on my laptop, mounting my LUKS volume, since it's not detected as a LUKS device but as unknown.

I think this is relatively important to fix, before we can hope to squash bug #1, since it's essential for businesses to have encrypted disks, or at least the possibility to have it.

Not sure if this should be filed as a bug or feature request, but here goes.

I've attached a screen shot of Ubiquity, showing my unknown partition.

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Lennart Hansen (lahansen) wrote :
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Lennart Hansen (lahansen) wrote :

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ for I in 1 2 3; do sudo cryptsetup isLuks /dev/sda$I; if [ $? -eq "0" ]; then echo "Woah, /dev/sda$I it LUKS"; fi; done
/dev/sda1 is not a LUKS partition
Woah, /dev/sda2 it LUKS
/dev/sda3 is not a LUKS partition
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

man cryptsetup

       isLuks <device>

              returns true, if <device> is a LUKS partition. Otherwise, false.
              No options.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

The new partitioner doesn't support this yet (to be fair, I rather doubt gparted did either), but it could in the future.

Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Matthias Niess (mniess) wrote :

I do not know if i should report a seperate bug for this, but I think you should have the option to encrypt filesystems from the beginning on.
USECASE:
Mary wants to install Ubuntu on her work-laptop. During partitioning she picks an option to put /home on a seperate encrypted partition, so that company data will be safe if the laptop is stolen.

Having something like this in ubiquity would make Ubuntu even more appealing for companies, I think.

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Christopher Denter (dennda) wrote :

Yes!
I absolutely agree with this point.
At the moment it takes much time to setup encrypted file systems, especially in comparison to other distributions like debian that have a built-in option to encrypt partitions if the user likes to do so.
Please add such a feature in Gutsy!

(Would be nice if it was available for the alternate installer, too.)

regards

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

A bug report has been already filed for Gparted missing Luks support. It's bug #175161. I think that the Gparted bug will need to be fixed before fixing this bug in ubiquity.

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Evan (ev) wrote :

Ubiquity does not make use of gparted anymore, so the gparted bug is not in fact a blocker for this.

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John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht) wrote :

While adding support for encrypted filesystems, also add support for compressed filesystems, e.g. JFFS2. (from bug 204187, which has been marked a duplicate)

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Matthias Niess (mniess) wrote :

Installing ob LUKS devices is no problem and setting up an encrypted home on install has been available for quite some time.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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