[clug] Ubuntu Lynx (10.04) and ecryptfs

Martin Schwenke martin at meltin.net
Mon May 3 22:31:13 MDT 2010


On Tue, 4 May 2010 10:49:52 +1000, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com>
wrote:

>> Can you (quickly) mount it from a Centos box? An older Ubuntu
>> install?

> Exactly.  As of right now, no I can't and this makes me a "tad"
> concerned.

This is why I've forsaken the built-in ecryptfs-based solution and use
my own solution based on encfs:

  #!/bin/bash
  base=/home/martins/.encfs
  set -- $(pw encfs_home)
  echo $2 | encfs -S "${base}/dev" "${base}/mnt"

"pw" retrieves the encryption password for encfs_home from a file that
is encrypted with my GPG key...  and there's good stuff around for
dealing with that.

For various reasons I also don't mount at boot or login time...

peace & happiness,
martin


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