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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 442

How to auto-mount veracrypt device-hosted volume with systemd after login on Linux Mint?

I created /etc/systemd/system/veracrypt-automount-devices.service:

[Unit]
Description=VeraCrypt auto-mount device-hosted volumes

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 300
ExecStart=/usr/bin/veracrypt --auto-mount=devices /media/veracrypt1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then I did:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable veracrypt-automount-devices
sudo systemctl status veracrypt-automount-devices

● veracrypt-automount-devices.service - VeraCrypt auto-mount device-hosted volumes
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/veracrypt-automount-devices.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sat 2020-06-06 17:28:59 CEST; 8min ago
  Process: 967 ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 300 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Jun 06 17:27:29 username-computername systemd[1]: Starting VeraCrypt auto-mount device-hosted volumes...

Jun 06 17:28:59 username-computername systemd[1]: veracrypt-automount-devices.service: Start-pre operation timed out. Terminating.

Jun 06 17:28:59 username-computername systemd[1]: veracrypt-automount-devices.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

Jun 06 17:28:59 username-computername systemd[1]: Failed to start VeraCrypt auto-mount device-hosted volumes.

As you can see, it doesn't work. If I grep syslog, here is what I find:

Jun  6 16:56:08 username-computername systemd[1]: veracrypt-automount-devices.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun  6 16:56:08 username-computername veracrypt[969]: Enter password:
Jun  6 16:56:08 username-computername systemd[1]: veracrypt-automount-devices.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun  6 17:28:59 username-computername systemd[1]: veracrypt-automount-devices.service: Start-pre operation timed out. Terminating.
Jun  6 17:28:59 username-computername systemd[1]: veracrypt-automount-devices.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

Basically, what I want is to be asked for the password to decrypt the device-hosted volume after I logged in with my username and password in Linux Mint.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2898

Answers (1)

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 442

I found how to do it. I put the veracrypt command in ~/.profile to execute the program on login. See https://askubuntu.com/a/270050/787567.

Upvotes: 0

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