2011/1/12 Roger <rogerx.oss@xxxxxxxxx>: > Is there a known method, when a user accesses a file/folder of an > unmounted dm-crypt partition, the action can spawn an attempt to automatically > mount this partition. > > For the password prompt, as I constantly am working within a terminal and not > GUI desktop for obvious reasons, pinentry is commonly used for prompting in a > terminal or by GUI for a password when using GNUPG. > > app-crypt/pinentry > http://gnupg.org/aegypten2/index.html > > Any thoughts on this? (Kernel DBUS/UDEV script or something?) > > > The type of current setup targeted is a file containing an encrypted EXT3 > filesystem using dm-crypt, for which is mounted to /mnt/crypt. > > This is usually left in an unmounted state until wanting access to something > within /mnt/crypt/somefile/orfolder. > > ie. "vi /mnt/crypt/myfile or abook /mnt/crypt/addressbook --datafile > /home/roger/.abook/addressbook" > > > I'm thinking, something within the dbus/udev (kernel script) is needed. > Another thought, what if TAB Bash Completion is used? inotify-tools could probably help you... something like this could work, i think; ------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # watch for folders inotifywait -m -r --format "%e %w%f" /mnt/crypt | while read event file; do # and mount if not mounted if ! df | grep /mnt/crypt >/dev/null ; then mount /mnt/crypt fi done ------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
