[Lxc-users] container with encrypted FS howto?

Johannes Graumann johannes_graumann at web.de
Fri Apr 27 11:48:57 UTC 2012


Hello,

Straight from the newbie department: is there a straight forward way to 
setup a lxc container such that it's entire file system is encrypted and 
starting the container requires a password? I am looking to run mailserver 
etc. in containers and would like to have the data the server is managing 
inaccessible should the harddrive be stolen from the hosting companies 
server farm ... I clearly can setup the corresponding diskspace hosting the 
rootFS as a dm-crypt partition, but is there a way to do this from "within" 
the guest system as with a non-virtualized install?

Thanks for any pointers.

Sincerely, Joh





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