Re: cryptoloop as user?

[ernst <ernst@bluezone.no>]

yes, came to the same solution.

I just created a simple script to do the job, works fine for me.

thanks

/ernst



On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Rob Weir wrote:

> 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
>