On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:15:08PM +0100, ernst wrote: > Hi > > I'm useing cryptoloop to protect my data on a ibmx20 laptop. Im running > 2.4.19 kernel with the cryptoloop and cryptoapi modules innstalled. > > As root, I have created a file with dd, used blowfish as cipher and > mounted it trough loop0, so far so good. > > But I am wondering if there is an easyer way to du this, I would like to > do this in bootup, as user. > > The way I'm doint it now is (as root): > losetup -e blowfish -k 128 /dev/loop0 /usr/tmp/my_crypt_file > mount /dev/loop0 /home/ernst/mnt/my_crypt_file > chown -R ernst:users /home/ernst/mnt/crypt > > Then I'm there, I can work on my docs as a user, but I'm wondering if > there is an easyer way of soing it? > > To release this again I'm doing : > umount /dev/loop0 > losetup -d /dev/loop0 There isn't really any way to delegate this sort of authority under Linux at the moment, but you can work around it. I have a similar script that I manually run when I want access to my encrypted filesystem, but I use 'sudo' to eliminate the need to be root. -rob
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