Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drive setup at login and locking on logout.

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 23:49:14 -0500, Dale wrote:

> Digging around I found these. 
>
> [ebuild  N    ~] sys-fs/ecryptfs-utils-111_p20170609::gentoo  USE="gtk
> nls pam -doc -gpg -openssl -pkcs11 -python -suid -tpm"
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" 1,401 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-fs/cryptmount-5.3.2::gentoo  USE="gcrypt largefile
> luks nls openssl udev -argv0switch -cswap -fsck -mount (-selinux)
> -systemd" 533 KiB
>
> Looking at the info I've found tho, I don't think it will do what I'm
> looking for.  Has anyone used either of these in the past?  If so, does
> one of these do what I'm looking for?

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.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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