hi all,
this is the first time I've contributed to a distro that is not my own, so if I'm doing something the "wrong way", please do inform me. :-)
Briefly about me - I'm interested in becoming involved in helping to develop CentOS (such as removing RH trademarks from new packages, and adding extra packages.)
I have experience with developing distros, from when I developed my own distro called "Jedo Linux". http://www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=projects/jedolinux/jedolinux.php
In regards to the other subject of this email,
I've made a modified version of the initscript package. This adds support for using dm-crypt encrypted filesystems on boot.
It allows encrypted swap, and encrypted storage directories. However, it's not really designed for having an encrypted root filesystem (although it could possibly be adapted without too much hassle).
I have a source RPM available here: http://www.jethrocarr.com/packages/SRPMS/initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.1.centos...
Basicly, I've added written a patch for initscripts, and made a couple of minor changes to the spec file.
I wasn't sure what to name it, so I added a .1 and my name to the release name. Feel free to change this to suit if you do decide to add it to one of the repos. :-)
Usage details and configuration for the encrypted filesystems are in /etc/sysconfig/enc-fstab.
thanks,