gnome-disks store passwords in cleartext for automounting encrypted partitions
Hi and thanks for your work,
If one configure gnome disks to automount LUKS partition (encryption options, désactivating automatic encryption options, selecting unlock on start, entering the passphrase in the filed below) the passphrase ends up in cleartext in a file on /etc/luks-keys/luks-UUID-OF-PARTITION
In my opinion this is bad because it makes it easy to recover. This makes the encryption itself useless and mislead the user into thinking that his data is secured.
- Ideally my suggestion would be that the password should go through the default password keyring software, and the partition should be mounted at user level.
- If this is not possible I suggest removing the auto-mount option.
- At the very least I think that the user should be informed of this issue when he activates that functionality.
Thanks!