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
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encfs fails to decrypt one of two sources
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