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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: vjn <vjn.raj@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: need help
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:00:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46192DB7.7030806@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9868997.post@talk.nabble.com>

vjn wrote:
> in my project i want to code the kernel such that when i plugged my usb it
> should ask for password and check it in the kernel space . can anyone help
> me

I think the correct solution is to use an excrypted mount, and issue the 
mount command manually with the question in user space. There's no code 
to ask for input, nor anyway to positively decide which connected 
terminal is the terminal to ask.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-08 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-06  7:49 need help vjn
2007-04-08 18:00 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
     [not found] <86Xi2-6La-421@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-04-06 21:24 ` Bodo Eggert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-30  7:51 Pius Jerry
2003-10-30  9:30 ` Nick Piggin
     [not found] <3D04BA0E.7000702@metaparadigm.com>
2002-06-13 14:21 ` manjuanth n
2002-06-13 14:21 ` manjuanth n
2002-06-08 11:27 manjuanth n
2002-06-08 19:43 ` Michael Clark
2002-06-10 14:21   ` manjuanth n
2002-06-10 17:04     ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-06-13 14:25   ` manjuanth n
2002-06-13 14:25   ` manjuanth n

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