linux-kernel - Re: need help

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Date:	Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:00:23 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	vjn <vjn.raj@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: need help

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@....com>
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