Re: [PATCH v7 07/16] fscrypt: add FS_IOC_REMOVE_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 11:35:56AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 
> "fscrypt lock" actually doesn't exist yet; it's a missing feature.  My patch to
> the fscrypt tool adds it.  So we get to decide on the semantics.  We don't want
> to require root, though; so for v2 policy keys, the real semantics have to be
> that "fscrypt lock" registers the key for the user, and "fscrypt unlock"
> unregisters it for the user.
> 

I meant the other way around, of course: "fscrypt unlock" registers the key for
the user, and "fscrypt lock" unregisters it for the user.

- Eric

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