Why am i being asked an authentication code when on Tails?

When booted tails and trying to access my computer, it asks for a "password to root" and something about a device and mounting? How do i get passed this. I'm trying to activate my vpn but im not sure how

Also when trying to configure a persistence volume, it gives an error about the devuce freedesktop/udisks/ was not created using tails usb installer. How do i get that to work

Last question: Is tails truly necessary? Would it be ok being behind tor/vpn/pgp/ ?


Comments


[1 Points] galaxyandspace:

  1. Are you running it from a disk?
  2. Use the unsafe browser to configure VPN, or is the VPN a program/app?
  3. Yes, tails is far better for security then running the programs


[1 Points] owockEznan:

Tails by default doesn't allow access to any fixed disk on the host machine. This is because it's designed to leave no fingerprint on the machine it's run on. You have to deliberaltely enable root to break this policy.

On the second error, was your tail's image installed from running the 'Tails Installer' program? The persistence installer makes sure that the device has a GUID partition table and that it has a partion called 'Tails' in it. As long as whatever device you're going into follows that you will be fine.

You can look at the source in /usr/share/perl5/Tails if you want to see the exact checks.