You could leave an unencrypted version of .ssh/authorized_keys in the directory where your home gets mounted. Just make a copy, unmount your home, then copy it back. You will need to use the -o nonempty option when you mount it, otherwise Fuse will complain about the mount point not being empty.
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Joe Pfeiffer <jos...@pfeifferfamily.net>wrote: > I'm running a laptop with my home directory encrypted using encfs. > This means, of course, that ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is encrypted, and > in fact doesn't even exist unless my home directory has been mounted. > > The practical implication of this is that when I ssh in to the laptop > from another machine, the behavior is different depending on whether > I'm already logged in to the laptop. The first ssh session requires > me to enter my password (since authorized_keys can't be checked); > once I'm logged in, I can log in to new sessions without a password. > > So... is anyone aware of a way I can authenticate myself without a > password, and without a useable authorized_keys file? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Encfs-users mailing list > Encfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/encfs-users >
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