From owner-svn-doc-projects@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 17 20:21:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C893ED; Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4F438A; Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r4HKLvLD007798; Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:57 GMT (envelope-from trhodes@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from trhodes@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.6/8.14.5/Submit) id r4HKLvhD007797; Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:57 GMT (envelope-from trhodes@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201305172021.r4HKLvhD007797@svn.freebsd.org> From: Tom Rhodes Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:57 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r41652 - projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks X-SVN-Group: doc-projects MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for doc projects trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:58 -0000 Author: trhodes Date: Fri May 17 20:21:57 2013 New Revision: 41652 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41652 Log: Migrate the encypted swap preparation section into the introduction and do some wording tweaks to remove redundancy. Modified: projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml Modified: projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml Fri May 17 20:12:00 2013 (r41651) +++ projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.xml Fri May 17 20:21:57 2013 (r41652) @@ -3845,22 +3845,18 @@ geli_da2_flags="-p -k /root/da2.key"encswap rc.d script. - - Preparation - - - For the remainder of this section, - ad0s1b will be the swap - partition. - - - By default, swap is unencrypted. It is possible that it - contains passwords or other sensitive data in cleartext. To - rectify this, the data on the swap partition should be - overwritten with random garbage: + + For the remainder of this section, + ad0s1b will be the swap + partition. + + + Swap partitions are not encrypted by default and should + be cleared of any sensitive data before continuing. To + overwrite the current swap parition with random garbage, + execute the following command: - &prompt.root; dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/ad0s1b bs=1m - + &prompt.root; dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/ad0s1b bs=1m Swap Encryption with &man.gbde.8;