[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] mount.dmcrypt

[Christian Thaeter]

David Härdeman wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:10:48PM +0200, Christian Thaeter wrote:
> 
>> I made a very simple mount helper-script for mounting removeable
>> encrypted media as user:
> 
> 
> Doesn't pmount achieve the same thing?
> 

Yes, there is also a cryptmount project on sf and maybe more similar
solutions. My goal here is to simplify the usage. From a user's view
'mount' is the command to mount filesystems and /etc/fstab hold the
configuration. All other solutions come with their own config files and
binaries.

With Luks or other kinds of keymanagement (or a pinentry prgogram) it
might be even possible to integrate this much easier in automounters or
dektops-environments which are not aware that there are different kinds
of mounting procedures. For now my mount.dmcrypt needs a passphrase
supplied on the console which makes it unuseable for such cases, but I
think thats simple to add and I would accept patches if anyone
integrates it or i'll do that by myself sometime next.

	Christian