Re: [Encfs-users] SSH authentication with encfs

2010-05-04 Thread J. Bobby Lopez
I think you'll be running in circles with this one, trying to balance convenience with security. You usually have to sacrifice one to have the other. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:01 PM, wrote: > > > without a password, AND without a useable authorized_keys file? > > Doesn't sound very secure to me.

Re: [Encfs-users] SSH authentication with encfs

2010-05-04 Thread simon
> without a password, AND without a useable authorized_keys file? Doesn't sound very secure to me Simon -- ___ Encfs-users mailing list [email protected]

Re: [Encfs-users] SSH authentication with encfs

2010-05-04 Thread Jared Stafford
You could leave an unencrypted version of .ssh/authorized_keys in the directory where your home gets mounted. Just make a copy, unmount your home, then copy it back. You will need to use the -o nonempty option when you mount it, otherwise Fuse will complain about the mount point not being empty. O

[Encfs-users] SSH authentication with encfs

2010-05-04 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I'm running a laptop with my home directory encrypted using encfs. This means, of course, that ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is encrypted, and in fact doesn't even exist unless my home directory has been mounted. The practical implication of this is that when I ssh in to the laptop from another machine,