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Ubuntu 18.04 and TPM2 encrypted system disk

*** EDIT *** : An updated version of this post can be found here: https://run.tournament.org.il/ubuntu-20-04-and-tpm2-encrypted-system-disk/ When you encrypt your entire disk, you are required to enter your passphrase every time you boot your computer. The TPM device has a purpose – keeping your secrets secure (available only to your running system), and combined with SecureBoot,…

TSClient on Ubuntu 12.04

Today there will be a few different posts. This is a day full of events, so… My first – to allow tsclient to work under Ubuntu 12.04, you should follow this guide: http://superuser.com/a/547102 To sum it up: Get tsclient to your architecture from http://pkgs.org Install it using ‘sudo dpkg –force-depends -i tsclient_0.150-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb’ Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status ,…

An experiment

My brother is a computer illiterate. He can use a computer for the purpose of e-mail messaging and for editing documents, spreadsheets, etc. I have decided to “abuse” his older laptop, an IBM X31 and install Ubuntu on it. This is some sort of an experiment. I wonder how he, a simple user, can cope…