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Apple: SSH and FileVault

(keith.github.io)
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1. epistasis ◴[] No.45295868[source]
I've been playing with Omarchy ("highly opinionated" Arch configuration) which has full disk encryption, and was wondering if I could use it as my primary VM. While in person, I would get a full GPU accelerated desktop, with access to all the long-running compute jobs etc. that I'm doing otherwise.

However the one thing stopping me is exactly what's solved here with the new MacOS. If I'm away for a few weeks, and the machine power cycles, the full disk encryption password still needs to be entered, in person, as far as I can tell. I'm running it under ProxMox, with the GPU in-person USB devices being passed to the VM. So the standard VNC viewer doesn't work for the setup.

It would be interesting to see if Omarchy tries somethnig similar...

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2. halJordan ◴[] No.45296146[source]
You've been able to bake a dropbear into the initramfs for, well, ever on linux
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3. epistasis ◴[] No.45296402[source]
Thanks for the pointer! Looks like tailscale also has at least 3 implementations for initramfs too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296075