Re: ecryptfs

[Bob Cox <debian-user@lists.bobcox.com>]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 14:08:31 -0500, Paul Cartwright (ale@pcartwright.com) wrote: 

> Bob Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:46:30 -0500, Paul Cartwright (ale@pcartwright.com) wrote: 
> > 
> >> I was reading a ubuntu how-to on ecryptfs ( for my laptop) and was
> >> interested in installing it on my Debian desktop. the ecryptfs-utils app
> >> installed just fine, but there was no user program
> >> (ecryptfs-setup-private ), per this doc:
> >>
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory
> >>
> >> to create the user encrypted folder. man ecryptfs doesn't show any
> >> examples, so I am at a loss as to how to create a user encrypted folder,
> >> or is that possible in Debian?
> > 
> > Hi Paul - I know nothing about ecryptfs, although it sounds interesting.
> > However, ecryptfs-setup-private *should* be there according to apt-file:
> > 
> > bob@trantor:~$ apt-file search ecryptfs-setup-private
> > ecryptfs-utils: /usr/bin/ecryptfs-setup-private
> > ecryptfs-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/ecryptfs-setup-private.1.gz
> > 
> > This is with lenny.
> > 
> 
> looks like lenny changed the files to :
> 
> /usr/bin/ecryptfs-mount-confidential
> and
> /usr/bin/ecryptfs-setup-confidential
> 
> I ran the setup, plugged in my login & passphrase, ran the mount, logged
> out & back in, and now have a ~/Private folder !
> so I now use keepass to keep my private passwords, and ecrypt to keep
> all the private files and folders..

Glad it worked ok in the end !

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Bob Cox.  Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
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