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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drive setup at login and locking on logout.
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 11:19:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200706111938.174b73d6@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d15d68ba-ba0b-b40d-e3e7-4328711681e2@gmail.com>

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On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 04:53:24 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > ecryptfs-utils is the userland management of the kernel's ecryptfs.
> > Ecryptfs uses an overlay filesystem to encrypt files within a
> > directory, it is what Ubuntu uses for encrypted home directories
> >
> > cryptmount is for working with LUKS filesystems, which appears to be
> > the route you are leaning towards. I haven't used it and don't know
> > what advantages it has over a user script, if you want to manually
> > mount the filesystem, or /etc/crypttab.

> I thought Gentoo used /etc/conf.d/dmcypt?  I still haven't figured that
> part out yet.  I need to read up on that more.  I'm not sure what it
> does exactly, yet.

It may do, I only encrypt everything-but-/boot or nothing at all.

For your use case, encrypting part of your home directory, ecryptfs may be
more suitable.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Ralph's Observation - It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object
to realize that you are in a hurry.

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-06 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-04  2:23 [gentoo-user] Encrypted drive setup at login and locking on logout Dale
2020-07-04  3:49 ` Francesco Turco
2020-07-04 13:01   ` Michael
2020-07-06  4:49 ` Dale
2020-07-06  5:24   ` William Kenworthy
2020-07-06  6:37     ` Dale
2020-07-06  9:05       ` William Kenworthy
2020-07-06  9:46         ` Dale
2020-07-06 10:17         ` Neil Bothwick
2020-07-06 11:02         ` Rich Freeman
2020-07-06  8:21   ` Neil Bothwick
2020-07-06  9:53     ` Dale
2020-07-06 10:19       ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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