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dyfi
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« Thread Started on Feb 9, 2011, 1:24am »

Hi,

Just interested to know if anyone has successfully installed Truecrypt? Debian has a weakness towards it.

It is not vital for me since I also use ccrypt - but TC is a good program and useful.

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Dyfi

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Re: Truecrypt
« Reply #1 on Feb 9, 2011, 8:32am »

The installation works without any problem, but have not tested yet.

I just tested it a little... and it works fine.

But as Truecrypt requires root privileges (sudo), here are some steps you have to follow to make it work as a normal user:
# groupadd truecrypt
# visudo
Add the following two lines:
# Users in the truecrypt group are allowed to run TrueCrypt as root.
%truecrypt ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/truecrypt
# adduser yourusername truecrypt

Now logout and login and and you should be able to mount and unmount the encrypted file/folder.
The only thing that does not work is if you want to open the folder from Truecrypt, because it is looking for Nautilus.
The steps were taken from this wiki at Archlinux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TrueCrypt

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Re: Truecrypt
« Reply #2 on Feb 9, 2011, 7:28pm »

Feb 9, 2011, 8:32am, hipsauerkraut wrote:

Thanks. That is just what I was looking for.

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Re: Truecrypt
« Reply #3 on Feb 10, 2011, 3:55am »

Yes, thank you very much for the information.

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