Sorry, the mail got sent incomplete, resending: > Does this happen when only using sshfs (without eCryptfs mounted on > top)? No, cp --preserve=timestamps to sshfs alone works. > Does this happen when only using eCryptfs (mounted locally on top of > something like ext4)? No, cp --preserve=timestamps to ecryptfs on top of ext4 works too. > Nothing like that should be a problem from eCryptfs' standpoint. I have > no idea about sshfs. Well, the existence of the allow_root and allow_other sshfs options suggest it somehow cares. > Why didn't adding user,noauto to the fstab entry work for you? What > error message did you see? Anything relevant in the system log? For example, I just tried with the following line (the key '1' is obviously just for testing): /home/obelix/evil_host /home/obelix/bak ecryptfs user,noauto,verbose,key=passphrase:passphrase_passwd=1 0 0 I got: $ mount ./bak Exiting. Unable to obtain passwd info I didn't get anything written to /var/log/messages.log or dmesg. If I run the mount as root, I get asked for the other parameters and in the end it mounts. I tried with a more comprehensive fstab line too: /home/obelix/evil_host /home/obelix/bak ecryptfs user,noauto,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,verbose,key=passphrase:passphrase_passwd=1,ecryptfs_passthrough,ecryptfs_enable_filename_crypto=n 0 0 This mounts as root without asking any questions and fails as user with the same error. -- 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