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.

  • @MimicJar@lemmy.world
    4•1 month ago

    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.

  • @voracread@lemmy.world
    1•1 month ago

    KDE has option to automount during login. I found that to be the best solution.

    Edit: I am mainly a PCLinuxOS user, so not sure if that would work for you.

  • @darksiderbun@lemmy.caEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    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)

  • Dr JekellEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    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.

    • @9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
      4•1 month ago

      If its encrypted, you can also decrypt the drive automatically once booted by adding an entry in /etc/crypttab

      This will make it so you don’t have to type the password.