[gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

[Harry Putnam]

I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I
don't have root.  I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:32:07 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:

 I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I
 don't have root.  I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.

Provided the kernel has ecrypt support and the userspace utilities are
installed, you can use ecrypt to encrypt a directory as an ordinary user.


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Freitag 01 Januar 2010 19:32:07 schrieb Harry Putnam:

 I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I
 don't have root.  I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.

Not having root access usually means no chance to mount something. That in 
turn means that you can only encrypt on a per file basis. The best tool for 
this would be GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).

HTH...

Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

[Ming-Che Lee]

Hi,

On Friday 01 January 2010 19:32:07 Harry Putnam wrote:
 I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where
  I don't have root.  I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo
  remote.
 

Maybe of some help:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9880

Regards,

Ming-Che

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

[Johannes Kimmel]

Harry Putnam wrote:

I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I
don't have root.  I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.



  

Encfs could also be interesting for you.

Johannes

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

[felix]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 10:57:20PM +0100, Ming-Che Lee wrote:

 Maybe of some help:
 
 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9880

Looks good to me -- I use some FUSE encryption setup which looks
similar, but it's been years since I set it up.  It wasn't hard.  It
has one decided quirk which I consider a feature -- root can read the
encrypted volume for backup but *cannot* access the plaintext volume.
Another quirk is that filenames are padded to multiples of some
configurable length before encryption; these are visible to root.  I
suppose root could even manipulate them, but I have never tried it.

I mount and umount it without root, but I think it required initial
root access to load a kernel module.  Now that happens automatically.
This may be a problem if you have no root access at all.

If you need more details, I suppose I can figure out what I did, but
that Linux Journal article looks pretty thorough.

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