Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:49:14 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Digging around I found these. >> >> [ebuild N ~] sys-fs/ecryptfs-utils-111_p20170609::gentoo USE="gtk >> nls pam -doc -gpg -openssl -pkcs11 -python -suid -tpm" >> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" 1,401 KiB >> [ebuild N ] sys-fs/cryptmount-5.3.2::gentoo USE="gcrypt largefile >> luks nls openssl udev -argv0switch -cswap -fsck -mount (-selinux) >> -systemd" 533 KiB >> >> Looking at the info I've found tho, I don't think it will do what I'm >> looking for. Has anyone used either of these in the past? If so, does >> one of these do what I'm looking for? > ecryptfs-utils is the userland management of the kernel's ecryptfs. > Ecryptfs uses an overlay filesystem to encrypt files within a directory, > it is what Ubuntu uses for encrypted home directories > > cryptmount is for working with LUKS filesystems, which appears to be the > route you are leaning towards. I haven't used it and don't know what > advantages it has over a user script, if you want to manually mount the > filesystem, or /etc/crypttab. > >
I thought Gentoo used /etc/conf.d/dmcypt? I still haven't figured that part out yet. I need to read up on that more. I'm not sure what it does exactly, yet. Dale :-) :-)
