My apologies if this is an overly naive question. I've found little help on this via google or in the loop-aes README or similar places and I've looked hard. I have been writing some scripts for myself to simplify creating & mounting loop-aes (aes256) loop devices. Please tell me if the following observations are correct: 1. Loop devices must be mounted as root (using the builtin loop-handling features of mount). 2. There's no need to write anything to /etc/fstab. If the loop device is formatted with ext2, you can chown & chmod the mount point directory after mounting to provide a non-root user(s) with access to that directory. 3. BUT trying to chown & chmod a mount point directory for a loop device that was formatted with vfat results in a "operation not allowed" error and it can't be done. Writing anything to /etc/fstab makes no difference. So ENCRYPTED LOOP DEVICES THAT HAVE BEEN FORMATTED WITH VFAT, MSDOS ETC CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED AS ROOT. Is this correct or not? The only thing I could find was from a web-board posting concerning something similar with dm-crypt. One poster said that THE FAT PERMISSIONS OPTIONS FOR `MOUNT` (see MAN MOUNT) DO NOT WORK AT ALL FOR LOOPBACK DEVICES, so these can't be used to solve this. Since vfat etc have no memory for permissions, they inherit root permissions from mount running as root, and if you attempt to change these permissions these cannot be 'remembered'. Someone said that IT WAS POSSIBLE TO CHANGE PERMISSIONS SO THAT EXISTING FILES IN THE MOUNT PONT DIRECTORY COULD BE ACCESSED BY A NON-ROOT USER, BUT ANY NEW FILES WOULD ONLY BE ACCESSIBLE AS ROOT. I haven't been able to achieve this. HOW DO YOU DO THIS? I'd really appreciate a crystal-clear walk-through of the above issues and I'm sure other newbies might too. Many thanks in advance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
