N00bie questions about encrypted file systems.

[Todd Zullinger]

Dean S. Messing wrote:
> As I read the above (very interesting!) article, I checked on my FC6
> laptop (running the 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 kernel) to see if encrptyfs
> was there.
> 
> A `locate -i encryptfs' turns up nothing, as does `yum info
> '*encrpytfs*'.  Is this stuff absent from FC6?  (Tell me it ain't
> so. I have no time to install F7 right now.)  The article said that
> encryptfs was available in the kernel as of 2.6.19.

As with umount, goblins have made off with the 'n' char.  The module
name is ecryptfs.ko and it is available in later FC6 kernels.  The
user-land tools are under review currently:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218556

You can probably build the latest package from the review to get a
pretty decent rpm.

I've not used this stuff at all.  I was simply curious. :)

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