another aes-loopback question -- /tmp directory

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:40:23PM -0500, Mike Oliver wrote:
> Wonder if anyone else has thought about this.
> I would like to put my $HOME directory on an
> encrypted partition, but leave /, /usr/bin, etc
> unencrypted, so as to be able to boot up without
> the passphrase in certain situations (e.g. giving
> someone a guest login).  I have most of it figured
> out, but I'm not sure what to do with /tmp.
> 
> What I would like to do is make /tmp a symlink
> to something in $HOME.  But the problem is that
> I want to make $HOME a manual mount (mainly because
> if you do automount, it prompts you for the passphrase
> at boot time and echoes it to the screen).  So
> I would be booting with /tmp as a broken symlink,
> and I won't have "orbit" files and so on (using KDE).
> Does anyone know whether these things can be fixed
> *after* starting KDE?  Similar questions, I suppose,
> for $HOME/Desktop and /var.

/tmp ought to be in ram using tmpfs.

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