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Cryptomaster

I wrote this programm because i was to lazy to always look
which device had which keyfiles and so forth. And also on my 
Ubuntu machine i never got the cryptdisks fully to work with use of the  crypttab file.
I did something like that with Xdialog and some shellscripts, but that was ugly.
Currently you have to setup your encrypted disks by hand and than you can
use them with my frontend. But there are some GUI tools in the work.

You have to add your devices in the /etc/cryptomaster.conf file like in the
following example

[EXAMPLE]
device=sda1
mapperdevice=Data
mountpoint=DATA
password=0
keyfile=/opt/mykeys/data.key

each device gets a new name in the brackets ...
than you can initialize and mount your devices through this frontend.
The edit button opens the configfile in your standard gnome texteditor.
This programm has to be run as root.
For the first release i have disabled the panik function, it just prints what it would do 
on the shell(if you run it from there). Please leave a mail or comment in the forum if this 
function is usefull for you. I added it because many people complain that keyfiles are as secure 
as non encryption, which i can understand, but when you hide your keyfile in some modules and without
a bash-history it can be hard for others to find the right one.
This frontend also supports password if you dont have any keyfile.
I will add a method for using normal cryptsetup without LUKS asap.


To install the usual ./configure than make and if you wish to install a make install(recommended) should do the thing.
you need the Following packages:
- gtk-dev
- gksuui-dev 
please let me know if a package is missing here.

You may notice a small hang when you press Init, i think its usefull, but I can remove this if the majority wants it removed.

for any tips, suggestions and ideas please drop me an email to rupertt@gmail.com

Since this software is beta and a free project I am not responsible for any damage this programm may could cause.

thx to the people on the gtk-app-devel list, the ones who created the icons I use and the fellows at mrunix.de and ubuntuusers.de


have phun


rupertt