Public bug reported: I am regularly backing up remote, incremental, encrypted copies of my home dir as well as /etc. The encryption portion is done simply using "encfs --reverse"
In both cases I can see what seem to be properly encrypted files copied away. But I get weird results when I mount the remote, encrypted directories on /mnt/sshfs and run: ENCFS6_CONFIG=/home/macho/.encfs6.xml encfs /mnt/sshfs /mnt/crypt For my home directory this works expected, and I can see all my decrypted files. But for the remote copy of encrypted /etc, although the command happily reports no errors, yet the mount is empty: # sshfs <remote source redacted>:/media/backup/encfs/basic/etc/2017-10-14_12:37:828918549 /mnt/sshfs # ENCFS6_CONFIG=/home/macho/.encfs6.xml encfs /mnt/sshfs /mnt/crypt EncFS Password: # ls /mnt/crypt -a . .. # mount | grep crypt encfs on /mnt/crypt type fuse.encfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions) Any thoughts on why this would be broken? Is it a problem with encfs itself? I used the same password for both. The discrepancy between root and user macho's versions of .encfs6.xml shouldn't be the problem: the root user doesn't even have such a file. Should I not be using the same xml file for more than one source? That would seem strange. Thanks! ** Affects: encfs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723757 Title: encfs fails to decrypt one of two sources To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/encfs/+bug/1723757/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs