encfs + nfs = nothing

Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak mjc at avtechpulse.com
Tue Aug 29 11:51:02 UTC 2006


Hi all,

I have a fileserver whose data I want to secure against physical theft, 
so I set up an encrypted encfs volume. encfs works very well and 
painlessly, until you try to export the data via NFS. Doesn't work! 
Seems to be an obscure limitation of fuse filesystems...

The "official" suggested workaround is to export the raw data using NFS, 
and run encfs clients on every client computer, but that's a 
cross-platform management nightmare. I want Windows and FC5 computers to 
access the NFS shares.

Alternatively, a "user space" nfs server can be used - but I don't see 
any packaged for FC5.

Any suggestions on how to make this work?

- Mike





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