Hi! On trying to work with ecryptfs I have found that I have to store ecryptfs configuration in an undocumented file ~/.ecryptfsrc like: merkaba:~> cat .ecryptfsrc ecryptfs_unlink_sigs ecryptfs_sig=[…] ecryptfs_fnek_sig=[…] ecryptfs_xattr ecryptfs_key_bytes=32 ecryptfs_cipher=aes ecryptfs_passthrough=n in order to mount ecryptfs without mount options. This makes handling of ecryptfs filesystem more complicated than encfs, since encfs seems to store encryption metadata in the encrypted directory itself: merkaba:~> ls -l /home/.ms2/.encfs5 -rw-r----- 1 root root 241 Mai 19 2008 /home/.ms2/.encfs5 Thus with ecryptfs I have to save the encrypted directory and the filesystem settings for a backup while with encfs its enough to copy the encrypted directory. Please consider to add this feature in ecryptfs. It will also make setting up ecryptfs easier. Thanks, -- Martin Steigerwald - teamix GmbH - http://www.teamix.de gpg: 19E3 8D42 896F D004 08AC A0CA 1E10 C593 0399 AE90 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ecryptfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
