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diff --git a/system/ecryptfs-utils/README b/system/ecryptfs-utils/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..44fbafb7c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/ecryptfs-utils/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +eCryptfs is a cryptographic stacked Linux filesystem. eCryptfs stores +cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted +files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decrypted with the proper +key in the Linux kernel keyring. There is no need to keep track of any +additional information aside from what is already in the encrypted file +itself. You may think of eCryptfs as a sort of "gnupgfs", or "gnupg as a +filesystem". + +On Slackware, the Slackbuild script does not install the mount helper binaries +into /sbin, but to /usr/sbin. Because of this, using `mount -t ecryptfs` won't +work, and you must call the `[u]mount.ecryptfs*` binaries explicitly. + +For an unprivileged user to use the `[u]mount.ecryptfs_private` executables, +it is necessary to set the suid bit on them, which the Slackbuild script also +does not do. |