Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-12-19 Thread Max Hetrick
Marcus Moeller wrote:

> We are just trying to offer a common look & feel on the wiki. I am
> going to rework you page so that you can see what I mean.

Just to follow up on the formatting issue we had when this page was 
created, I wanted to post a note.

The author of the HTML-WikiConverter-MoinMoin converter that I use, 
fixed the bug where HTML to the MoinMoin wasn't converted over correctly 
to MoinMoin format.

So, in case any one else is using this tool, get the latest version, and 
we won't have any more issues with the formatting. :)

Regards,
Max
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RE: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-17 Thread Chris *
Another post asked if I have a wiki account.  The answer is "no".  I think that 
at this point it would be better if i did for this article.

In response to some of the points by Tru:

> to be verified: you need to make a GUI install, the text mode installation
> method does not have the lvm creation feature.

Very true, Tru.  This detail is actually a hold-over from one of the documents 
that I used as a source.  I have not actually tried a text-mode install but it 
should definitely be verified.

>imho, should be emphasized -> and some figures hinted for the minimal size of 
>sda3 (swap+/)

Emphasis is not a problem.  As for the size of sda3, I can try to clarify the 
sizes.  The document states that sda3 should be smaller than what will become 
sda2 so that there is room for the encryption overhead, but as for the sizes of 
things such as swap and other partitions, the best I know to do is refer to 
CentOS/RedHat documentation.  I am open to other suggestions.

> make patch file available a the command to apply it:
> wget http://../mkinitrd.patch -O /tmp/mkintrd.patch
> cd / && patch -p1 < /tmp/mkinitd.patch

Is there a good place to make it available?  Would something such as 
sourceforge be best?

> non dd version?
> vgextend + pvmove + vgreduce ?

A quick google search found that this would be possible, but there is a 
trade-off.  Section 4.1 of the page 
http://www.planamente.ch/emidio/docs/linux/dm-crypt/dm-crypt-4.html explains 
the trade-off.  It's basically a single dm-crypt device with a single 
passphrase for the entire disk vs multiple dm-crypt devices each with it's own 
passphrase.  If this type of option were to be added to the document, I think 
that it should probably go into the "Optional Configurations" section so that 
the main document can be a cookie-cutter step by step for people to follow.

> >  # pvresize –-setphysicalvolumesize [size of disk - /boot] /dev/mapper/lvm
> why not just pvresize /dev/mapper/lvm ?
> should it detect the size by itself?

I believe that it will.  I think I listed the command that way so that it would 
allude to the fact that you don't have to use the entire disk if you didn't 
want.  You can increase the size of /dev/sda2 and still have some space on the 
disk for additional volumes, encrypted devices, etc.  That's what the "Optional 
Configurations" area tries to detail a little more.

> > NOTE: To make the encrypted system the default system, make the above lines 
> > the first block listed in grub.conf
> or set the default value 

True.  I phrased that section with the intent that the original grub entries 
would be removed along with the unencrypted install in which case the entry for 
the encrypted system would end up with the at the default value of 0. 

> >  # lvextend -L +[size to increase the volume] /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> > 
> same question, here (autodetection) if you only want to extend a single 
> logical volume.
> lvextend /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

This was in case LVM was built with multiple logical volumes.  You would want 
to specify the size of each volume that you want to increase so the first one 
doesn't take all space and leave no room for the others to grow.  I  probably 
need to clarify that point.

Chris
 

> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:35:00 +0200
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: centos-docs@centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home
> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:41:12PM -0400, Chris * wrote:
> > 
> > I had submitted a document to this list a few weeks back that gave
> ...
> nice write-up, minor typo/corrections in the text added below.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tru
> > Summary
> ...
> > 
> > Step One: Prepare the disk
> > The first step is to prepare the disk. The installer partitioning software
> > doesn't have the flexibility to be able to do this, so you will need to
> > switch to the shell and perform the setup manually.
> 
> to be verified: you need to make a GUI install, the text mode installation
> method does not have the lvm creation feature.
> 
> > Once the installer has moved into the GUI, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a 
> > command prompt.
> ...
> > 
> > Use fdisk to create the partitions for install. You will need to create a
> > /boot partition and an LVM partition at the end of the disk. The gap in
> > between the two partitions will become your encrypted file-system. This
> > document will refer to the boot partition as /dev/sda1 and the install
> > partition at the end of the disk as /dev/sda3. The encrypted partition will
> > become /dev/sda2.
> 
> imho, should be emphasized -> and some figures hinted for the minimal size of 
> sda3 (swap+/)
> 
> > The partition a

Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-17 Thread Tru Huynh
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:41:12PM -0400, Chris * wrote:
> 
> I had submitted a document to this list a few weeks back that gave
...
nice write-up, minor typo/corrections in the text added below.

Cheers,

Tru
> Summary
...
> 
> Step One: Prepare the disk
> The first step is to prepare the disk. The installer partitioning software
> doesn't have the flexibility to be able to do this, so you will need to
> switch to the shell and perform the setup manually.

to be verified: you need to make a GUI install, the text mode installation
method does not have the lvm creation feature.

> Once the installer has moved into the GUI, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a command 
> prompt.
...
> 
> Use fdisk to create the partitions for install. You will need to create a
> /boot partition and an LVM partition at the end of the disk. The gap in
> between the two partitions will become your encrypted file-system. This
> document will refer to the boot partition as /dev/sda1 and the install
> partition at the end of the disk as /dev/sda3. The encrypted partition will
> become /dev/sda2.

imho, should be emphasized -> and some figures hinted for the minimal size of 
sda3 (swap+/)

> The partition at the end of the disk should be smaller than the empty space
> between /boot and your LVM partition so that there is room for the meta-data
> associated with the encryption. The LVM partition really only needs to be
> large enough to install the system. You will be able to expand the system
> volumes if you like after you have a working, encrypted system.
> 
...
> 
> Step Two: Installing the OS
> The installation must be done using the graphical installer because the text 
> installer doesn't allow a custom installation to use LVM.
should be placed above, since the installer has already started.

...
> 
> Step Three: Create the encrypted partition
> 
> Step Four: Configure mkinitrd for encrypted system
>
> Make a backup copy of /sbin/mkinitrd. Future updates of the mkinitrd package
> will overwrite it, but the changes will allow future kernel updates to
> properly build an initrd. Modify /sbin/mkinitrd per the patch below. The
> patch modifies the MODULES line so that initrd has the proper modules for
> encryption, adds cryptsetup to initrd, and configures initrd to open the
> encrypted file-system.
> 
make patch file available a the command to apply it:
wget http://../mkinitrd.patch -O /tmp/mkintrd.patch
cd / && patch -p1 < /tmp/mkinitd.patch

> Enter the pass-phrase. Now you can copy the contents of sda3 to the encrypted 
> sda2.
> 
>  # dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/mapper/lvm
non dd version?
vgextend + pvmove + vgreduce ?

> NOTE: To make the encrypted system the default system, make the above lines 
> the first block listed in grub.conf
or set the default value 

> Once the encrypted system is confirmed to be working correctly, remove the
> unencrypted system. Randomize /dev/hda3 by using either shred or dd. Once
 ^ sda3
> Use the fdisk command to resize sda2 to fill the entire disk.
> 
...
> 
>  # pvresize –-setphysicalvolumesize [size of disk - /boot] /dev/mapper/lvm
why not just pvresize /dev/mapper/lvm ?
should it detect the size by itself?
> Extend the logical volumes of the system with lvextend. man lvextend for more 
> information on the command.
> 
>  # lvextend -L +[size to increase the volume] /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> 
same question, here (autodetection) if you only want to extend a single logical 
volume.
lvextend /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00


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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-17 Thread Max Hetrick

Max Hetrick wrote:
To further explain things, MoinMoin starts off headers with = Title 1 = 
and here's the problem with the html2wiki converter, it actually doesn't 
convert the h1 correctly with how I would logically think it should work.


I contacted the Perl developer of HTML-WikiConverter-MoinMoin and 
explained the problem. It's definitely a bug in the converter dialect.


The author asked me to file a bug report for him on CPAN, so I did so. 
In the meantime, I'll use Filipe's sed script to get the output needed. 
In case anyone else is using this, I wanted to follow up.


Changes were made to the encryption page, as well as corrections to the 
rest of my pages. When you get a chance, Marcus, take a look and make 
sure the formatting is correct.


Thanks.
Max

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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-17 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Chris * wrote:
> 
> I had submitted a document to this list a few weeks back that gave
> instructions for whole disk encryption which would cover /tmp /home
> /swap and everything other than /boot.  I did not ask for space in the
> wiki because i thought it was waiting for "peer review" for accuracy.
> That entire thread seemed to simply die so I haven't pursued the wiki
> any further.  I already have this document in a wiki format at work
> and would be happy to submit it to the CentOS wiki should it pass
> muster.  The contents of my last post are:

Ooops, that must have slipped by me, sorry. Got a wiki account?


> Whole (Most) Disk Encryption on CentOS 5

Good. I'm going to move the TipsAndTricks "EnctyptedFileSystem" to the
HowTo section also, and we can create that page too.

Cheers,

Ralph


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RE: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-16 Thread Chris *

I had submitted a document to this list a few weeks back that gave instructions 
for whole disk encryption which would cover /tmp /home /swap and everything 
other than /boot.  I did not ask for space in the wiki because i thought it was 
waiting for "peer review" for accuracy.  That entire thread seemed to simply 
die so I haven't pursued the wiki any further.  I already have this document in 
a wiki format at work and would be happy to submit it to the CentOS wiki should 
it pass muster.  The contents of my last post are:

Whole (Most) Disk Encryption on CentOS 5

This document is in the process of being developed

Credit To Others
The primary source for this document was 
http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/cryptoroot-f8/. It was heavily used but 
adapted to CentOS5 and with some changes which simplify and improve the 
process. Other sources that were used are http://musialek.org/?p=3 and 
http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2008/05/encrypting-linux-root-partition-with.html.

Summary
This document contains step by step instructions for encrypting the entire disk 
including swap space with the exception of the /boot partition on CentOS 5. It 
assumes that you are planning to encrypt your disk from install and that your 
disk is /dev/sda. This document was created with with CentOS 5.0 before any 
patches or updates were applied. There are some optional components within this 
document that are not technically necessary for encrypting the disk. Those 
components can be ignored for testing, but they should be followed on any 
“real” systems.
The end of the document contains optional configurations. This is useful if you 
prefer to have additional partitions on the disk. The step by step instructions 
will leave a disk with two partitions, /boot (/dev/sda1) and an LVM (/dev/sda2) 
partition which contains all system volumes. The optional section will contain 
the differences needed to have an additional partition (/dev/sda3) which may be 
used as a data store, NFS share, etc.

Step One: Prepare the disk
The first step is to prepare the disk. The installer partitioning software 
doesn't have the flexibility to be able to do this, so you will need to switch 
to the shell and perform the setup manually.
Once the installer has moved into the GUI, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a command 
prompt.
OPTIONAL – Overwrite and randomize the entire disk. Use shred or dd to 
overwrite the disk. The technical merits of multiple overwrites of shred vs. 
using /dev/random with dd are beyond the scope of this document. The default 
options of shred take a very, very long time to run. The time to complete on 
any sizeable disk would likely be measured in days. This note applies to all 
statements about radomizing the disks or partitions in this document.

 # shred -v /dev/sda

or

 # dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda


Use fdisk to create the partitions for install. You will need to create a /boot 
partition and an LVM partition at the end of the disk. The gap in between the 
two partitions will become your encrypted file-system. This document will refer 
to the boot partition as /dev/sda1 and the install partition at the end of the 
disk as /dev/sda3. The encrypted partition will become /dev/sda2.
The partition at the end of the disk should be smaller than the empty space 
between /boot and your LVM partition so that there is room for the meta-data 
associated with the encryption. The LVM partition really only needs to be large 
enough to install the system. You will be able to expand the system volumes if 
you like after you have a working, encrypted system.

 # fdisk /dev/sda

RedHat documentation recommends 100MB for the boot partition. Over time, the 
/boot partition can fill up as a result of updated kernels if it is not 
regularly cleaned. Using a larger /boot partition may be beneficial. /dev/sda1 
should be of type 83 (Linux) and should be bootable. /dev/sda3 should have 
sufficient space to perform the installation. The partition type of /dev/sda3 
should be 8e (Linux LVM). When done, it should look something like:

 DeviceBoot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/sda1   *   1  65  521955   83  Linux
 /dev/sda3   2   3040183554065   8e  Linux LVM

If you are not familiar with the fdisk commands, you can type “?” at the fdisk 
prompt to see a list of commands. Once you have the disk partitioned correctly 
(view the partition table with the “p” command within fdisk), remember to write 
the partition table while exiting with the “w” command.
Return to the GUI to complete the installation. Press Ctrl-Alt-F6 to return to 
the GUI.

Step Two: Installing the OS
The installation must be done using the graphical installer because the text 
installer doesn't allow a custom installation to use LVM.
For the partitioning, select “Custom”, and tell it to format sda1 as /boot, and 
sda3 as an LVM physical partition.
Then use the “LVM” button to create a volume group, and a logi

Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:


No it doesn't. It removes two "=" from each line that starts with a
"=" (i.e. is a title line). So it transforms

=== title 3 ===into   = title 1 =
 title 4 into   == title 2 ==
= title 5 =into   === title 3 ===


Ahhh, crap! You're right. I realized I just ran it on the file that I 
corrected into proper formatting, that I used to change the guide into 
what the wiki format needs.


It's been a long day.

Thanks, again.

I'll use this until I get my things fixed up, and then I'll still 
contact the html2wiki developer to get this corrected for good.


Thanks a bunch.
Max

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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 18:40, Max Hetrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> html2wiki --dialect MoinMoin my_file.html | sed '/^=/s/==\(=*\)/\1/g'
>
> That changes all the headings to = Title 1 =.

No it doesn't. It removes two "=" from each line that starts with a
"=" (i.e. is a title line). So it transforms

=== title 3 ===into   = title 1 =
 title 4 into   == title 2 ==
= title 5 =into   === title 3 ===

Wasn't that what you needed?

Filipe
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:


html2wiki --dialect MoinMoin my_file.html | sed '/^=/s/==\(=*\)/\1/g'


Thanks, Filipe.

That changes all the headings to = Title 1 =. I think I'll contact the 
maintainer of html2wiki and see if they know whether or not the MoinMoin 
dialect is behaving the way it is.


Once I investigated it, I really think it's not behaving the way it 
should for MoinMoin.


In the meantime, I'll play around with your sed one-liner there.

Thanks!
Max
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi,

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 16:30, Max Hetrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> html2wiki --dialect MoinMoin my_file.html > my_file.wiki
>
> h2 equals === Title 3 ===
> h3 equals  Title 4 
> h4 equals = Title 5 

You could use a sed to post-process the output of html2wiki:

html2wiki --dialect MoinMoin my_file.html | sed '/^=/s/==\(=*\)/\1/g'
>my_file.wiki

Dirty, but should do the job.

HTH,
Filipe
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick

Marcus Moeller wrote:


There are just some small formatting rules
you should mind of.


Fixed. I also fixed all my other pages while I was at it, so I didn't 
have to worry about them.


In the future, I'll make sure the formatting is correct on any new 
material I submit.


Thanks,
Max
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick
To further explain things, MoinMoin starts off headers with = Title 1 = 
and here's the problem with the html2wiki converter, it actually doesn't 
convert the h1 correctly with how I would logically think it should work.


h1 equals == Title 2 ==
h2 equals === Title 3 ===
h3 equals  Title 4 
h4 equals = Title 5 

Ultimately, the conversion being done is wrong, because the Title 1 
exists, but html2wiki starts off with Title 2.


So, even if I re-work my headings on my website, the converter tool 
wouldn't do the correct job for what you want things to look like.


I would say that the conversation should realistically look like this:

h1 equals = Title 1 =
h2 equals == Title 2 ==
h3 equals === Title 3 ===
h4 equals  Title 4 
h5 equals = Title 5 =

But it doesn't, so I'll live the tool the way it is since it still saves 
me a ton of time with MoinMoin syntax.


Regards,
Max

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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick

Akemi Yagi wrote:


According to:

http://search.cpan.org/~diberri/HTML-WikiConverter-0.62/lib/HTML/WikiConverter.pm#DESCRIPTION

There is a wiki dialect called "MoinMoin".  Are you already using this one ?



Yes, when I do my converting, I do the following:

html2wiki --dialect MoinMoin my_file.html > my_file.wiki

And, yep, I have the MoinMoin dialect package installed. That isn't the 
issue though. The issue is I'm using h2, h3, and h4's for my HTML. I'm 
not starting with h1 as my top heading for my HTML pages on my site.


So, when the converting is done, it looks like this:

h2 equals === Title 3 ===
h3 equals  Title 4 
h4 equals = Title 5 

Everything is working as designed, it's just since I'm starting my 
headers off using h2 as the starting point, because that's how I want it 
to look on my website theme, the MoinMoin headers are starting one down, 
and that's not how you guys want things to look.


I'm sure most would argue, I'm in the wrong because I'm not starting off 
with h1's as my starting point for headers. Again, let's not get too 
worked up over this. I'll just have to spend more time changing the 
formatted text before I copy and paste changes over. It's not a big deal 
to me, and I certainly didn't mean to irritate anyone because of 
formatting on my part.


Long term, I can fix it by starting off with h1's, which will equal == 
Title 1 == MoinMoin style, and I'll re-work my theme of my website to 
make the CSS h1's smaller. That'll make me happy with how my site 
appears, and still allow me to use the converter saving me time on 
posting material to the wiki -- thus making you guys happy. :) For now 
though, can we just drop this, please? I think enough people's time has 
been wasted today.


Regards,
Max
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Max Hetrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>> Would it be possible to change the resulting output of your html2wiki
>> script to something the CentOS Wiki uses ? I don't think it can be that hard
>> as it mainly is the syntax for the headings.
>
> Dag,
>
> I don't know, honestly. It's a Perl program I found, and I'm not a
> programmer. There seem to be no options for changing the output of what
> headings you want equaling to the outcome.
>
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-WikiConverter/bin/html2wiki
>
> You just choose a wiki dialect and it spits out the formatting, without much
> option for anything else.

According to:

http://search.cpan.org/~diberri/HTML-WikiConverter-0.62/lib/HTML/WikiConverter.pm#DESCRIPTION

There is a wiki dialect called "MoinMoin".  Are you already using this one ?

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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick

Dag Wieers wrote:


Would it be possible to change the resulting output of your html2wiki 
script to something the CentOS Wiki uses ? I don't think it can be that 
hard as it mainly is the syntax for the headings.



Dag,

I don't know, honestly. It's a Perl program I found, and I'm not a 
programmer. There seem to be no options for changing the output of what 
headings you want equaling to the outcome.


http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-WikiConverter/bin/html2wiki

You just choose a wiki dialect and it spits out the formatting, without 
much option for anything else.


Max

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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick

Marcus Moeller wrote:


First I just want to make one thing clear: I really appreciate your
work which is well done. There are just some small formatting rules
you should mind of.

As mentioned it's mostly about headings. I am going to rework it for
you. In general I (and a few other wiki contributors) try to take care
of the styling and re-work pages to fulfill our needs. But (at least
me) always add changelog notes on style modification to line out what
I have done and try to talk to the original contributor so that she/he
could do in on her/his own on future additions.


I'm not trying to start an argument, so let's just drop this 
conversation and  I'll deal with it. When I get time, I'll re-work all 
my pages on the wiki with what you want, but I can't guarantee when that 
will be.


Thanks,
Max

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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Dag Wieers

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Max Hetrick wrote:


Marcus Moeller wrote:


 We are just trying to offer a common look & feel on the wiki. I am
 going to rework you page so that you can see what I mean.


I understand and know what you mean, but it can be cumbersome and time 
consuming to have to write pages in multiple formats. I like writing docs for 
CentOS, but I also host them on my website where they are written in HTML 
first. I find wiki syntax to be annoying to write first drafts in, because 
that's just my preference.


I'll try to more mindful about it in the future, on future posts and pages. 
Would you prefer to have documentation submitted by the community and people 
like myself who volunteer docs to delegated members to format uniformly on 
the wiki, rather than posting it myself?


Would it be possible to change the resulting output of your html2wiki 
script to something the CentOS Wiki uses ? I don't think it can be that 
hard as it mainly is the syntax for the headings.


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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Marc.

>> We are just trying to offer a common look & feel on the wiki. I am
>> going to rework you page so that you can see what I mean.
>
> I understand and know what you mean, but it can be cumbersome and time
> consuming to have to write pages in multiple formats. I like writing docs
> for CentOS, but I also host them on my website where they are written in
> HTML first. I find wiki syntax to be annoying to write first drafts in,
> because that's just my preference.
>
> I'll try to more mindful about it in the future, on future posts and pages.
> Would you prefer to have documentation submitted by the community and people
> like myself who volunteer docs to delegated members to format uniformly on
> the wiki, rather than posting it myself?

First I just want to make one thing clear: I really appreciate your
work which is well done. There are just some small formatting rules
you should mind of.

As mentioned it's mostly about headings. I am going to rework it for
you. In general I (and a few other wiki contributors) try to take care
of the styling and re-work pages to fulfill our needs. But (at least
me) always add changelog notes on style modification to line out what
I have done and try to talk to the original contributor so that she/he
could do in on her/his own on future additions.

Thanks
Marcus
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick

Marcus Moeller wrote:


We are just trying to offer a common look & feel on the wiki. I am
going to rework you page so that you can see what I mean.


I understand and know what you mean, but it can be cumbersome and time 
consuming to have to write pages in multiple formats. I like writing 
docs for CentOS, but I also host them on my website where they are 
written in HTML first. I find wiki syntax to be annoying to write first 
drafts in, because that's just my preference.


I'll try to more mindful about it in the future, on future posts and 
pages. Would you prefer to have documentation submitted by the community 
and people like myself who volunteer docs to delegated members to format 
uniformly on the wiki, rather than posting it myself?


Regards,
Max
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Max

>> Please try to follow the wiki styling guidelines:
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowToContribute/EditingCentOSWiki
>>
>> That means you should e.g. use headings for titles and subtitles. Take
>> a look at existing pages to see what I mean.
>>
>
> I write my stuff in HTML, and then use html2wiki to format it. My headings
> are formatted for my website, which saves me from writing two sets of
> documents since both places are identical in content to the page.
>
> It's never been a problem before with all the pages I've contributed to, at
> least no one has spoke up with the other pages.

We are just trying to offer a common look & feel on the wiki. I am
going to rework you page so that you can see what I mean.

Best Regards
Marcus
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Max Hetrick

Marcus Moeller wrote:



Please try to follow the wiki styling guidelines:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowToContribute/EditingCentOSWiki

That means you should e.g. use headings for titles and subtitles. Take
a look at existing pages to see what I mean.



I write my stuff in HTML, and then use html2wiki to format it. My 
headings are formatted for my website, which saves me from writing two 
sets of documents since both places are identical in content to the page.


It's never been a problem before with all the pages I've contributed to, 
at least no one has spoke up with the other pages.


Max
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Encrypting tmp swap and home

2008-10-15 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Max.

> I added a page under the HowTos for Encryption, and then added a guide for
> encrypting /tmp /swap and /home using cryptsetup and LUKS keys on LVM, when
> you already have partitions setup.
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptTmpSwapHome

Please try to follow the wiki styling guidelines:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowToContribute/EditingCentOSWiki

That means you should e.g. use headings for titles and subtitles. Take
a look at existing pages to see what I mean.

Thanks
Marcus
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