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Re: encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?



Anonymous on 2006-07-11 17:00:56 -0000:

> I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive
> encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able
> to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the
> encrypted FS mounted, then mount the encrypted partition in the SSH
> session (from a trusted machine, of course) presumably by giving a
> sort of mount command and entering the passphrase.
> 
> I've never used an encrypted FS before. Is what I want possible? What
> encrypted FS supports this?

I believe that at encfs, an encrypted file system that uses FUSE, and
libpam-encfs, a PAM module to load encfs at user login, would fit your
requirements.

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