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

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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