Bind ubuntu to hard drive.

[TwinZ Ubuntu Mailing List]

Exactly! That is my point, so I am looking for two ways to protect the
drive's contents:

Step one: by using a completely encrypted file system (root as well).
Surely, dd would be able to do a bit-by-bit copy, but they'd end up with a
hard drive with encrypted files in it and could not just read them by
mounting the drive to another system. Right?

Step two: binding the installation to the hard drive serial. Even if one
made a bit-by-bit copy the new drive would have a different serial and -in
theory- would not boot. Right? Haven't figured out how to exactly implement
this one, here are a few thoughts.

- I need a similar command like the " label " or " vol " used in dos to
extract the drive's serial somehow. I could start from there.

- Is there a way (startup script maybe) to have the OS loader check the
drive's serial and prevent startup in case of a mismatch? Since the drive
would be encrypted it would be hard for someone to mess with this startup
script by having physical access to the hard drive (well, unless they find a
way to get around LUK encryption first somehow).

Once again, looking forward for any thoughts/suggestions,
Greg.

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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Tin Tin
Sent: Κυριακή, 25 Μαρτίου 2007 09:03 πμ
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Subject: Re: Bind ubuntu to hard drive.

That is not possible, anyone could just take your hard disk, install
in another computer and copy the entire content using dd. Whether they
can read the files or not (encryption), that is another problem.

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