N00bie questions about encrypted file systems.
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Wed Jun 13 02:31:04 UTC 2007
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:45:00PM -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote:
>
> Peter Connolly wrote:
> : eCryptFS. Nice article in Linux Journal:
> : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9400.
>
> 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.
The drivers should already be present.
[ccurley at dragon buffalo.bill]$ locate ecryptfs
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/kernel/fs/ecryptfs
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/kernel/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/kernel/fs/ecryptfs
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2948.fc6/kernel/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2952.fc6/kernel/fs/ecryptfs
/lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2952.fc6/kernel/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs.ko
The userspace utils aren't in Fedora yet; see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218556 for the
gory details. meanwhile you can get them at the usual place.
Let us know how you do with it; I'm probably not the only person who
would like to try it.
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