Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 10:57:20PM +0100, Ming-Che Lee wrote: > Maybe of some help: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9880 Looks good to me -- I use some FUSE encryption setup which looks similar, but it's been years since I set it up. It wasn't hard. It has one decided quirk which I consider a feature -- root can read the encrypted volume for backup but *cannot* access the plaintext volume. Another quirk is that filenames are padded to multiples of some configurable length before encryption; these are visible to root. I suppose root could even manipulate them, but I have never tried it. I mount and umount it without root, but I think it required initial root access to load a kernel module. Now that happens automatically. This may be a problem if you have no root access at all. If you need more details, I suppose I can figure out what I did, but that Linux Journal article looks pretty thorough. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
Harry Putnam wrote: I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote. Encfs could also be interesting for you. Johannes
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
Hi, On Friday 01 January 2010 19:32:07 Harry Putnam wrote: > I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where > I don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo > remote. > Maybe of some help: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9880 Regards, Ming-Che
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
Am Freitag 01 Januar 2010 19:32:07 schrieb Harry Putnam: > I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I > don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote. Not having root access usually means no chance to mount something. That in turn means that you can only encrypt on a per file basis. The best tool for this would be GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). HTH... Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:32:07 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I > don't have root. I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote. Provided the kernel has ecrypt support and the userspace utilities are installed, you can use ecrypt to encrypt a directory as an ordinary user. -- Neil Bothwick Gigabyte: (n.) more than you can comprehend and less than you'll need. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
