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How to automatically mount an encrypted volume at boot

Courtesy of ask.fedoraproject.org

NOTE: To have this work, one of your passphrases of your LUKS encrypted disk must be the same then your login password!

Prerequisite:

$ sudo dnf install pam_mount

Find the right UUID of the encrypted disk you would like to automount after login.

$ sudoedit /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml

Insert following row after comment row: <!-- Volume definitions -->

<volume user="your_login_user" fstype="crypt" path="/dev/disk/by-uuid/the_uuid_of_encrypted_disk" 
        mountpoint="path_to_your_mount_point" options="relatime" />

Also:

$ sudoedit /etc/pam.d/gdm-password

Add follwing line:

auth optional pam_mount.so try_first_pass

Add following line in session text block:

session optional pam_mount.so

Reboot.

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