I installed an additional SSD on my pc. Everything works ok, except I need to unlock it with my root password on every session so that it mounts.
I’ve tried formatting it to change the ‘owner’, tried adding it to the user group, and I can’t find any other solutions. Any ideas?
This happens irrelevant of DE (happens on KDE and hyprland). I’m running tumbleweed, though this looks like a config problem rather than a distro problem.
I have had the issue of having to enter a password to access an additional drive on my Manjaro PC.
I was pointed to this as a possible solution and it worked for me.
It may or may not work for you though.
As you mentioned elsewhere it’s encrypted.
Take a look at
/etc/crypttab
and creating and adding a key file that can unlock the drive.Essentially your additional SSD will have both a password and a file containing a password that can unlock the drive. When you unlock your root filesystem (I’m guessing at boot) it will then have the key file that can unlock the SSD.
Something like
cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/pathtossd --new-keyfile /etc/newpassword
Systemd might make this easier to setup nowadays.
Edit: Also, yes, the password to unlock your SSD is just sitting in a file in your root drive. Be sure to restrict it to only be readable by root.
Be sure to restrict it to only be readable by root.
sudo chmod 400 /etc/newpassword
I know a lot of people are recommending fstsb entries, but since you’re using a DE, you can have the credential stored in the wallet / session manager for your DE. KDE and Gnome should both have an automount option using keys from there. Then you also can find a preference somewhere to unlock your wallet / session keys thing on login. Bing bang boom you should have it mount and unlock automatically without having to enter any extra stuff with the added benefit of not leaving the key around (though since it seems you have FDE anyway that’s a minor issue depending on your threat model)
Add it to /etc/fstab. Tons of guides everywhere online.
Encrypted volume? If so, that’s why.
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Right. Wouldn’t it make sense to unlock it along with my root drive when I log in though? There should be a way to do that
You could set the password to be the same. It’ll attempt to use all known methods when unlocking it.
You can also probably store a key on the root drive instead of using a password, but I’ve never done that.
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