HOWTO: Encrypted directory with EncFS

[Razac]

Hey,All

@ Sam

Sorry for sounding like a big *** here but when you say
and I put it in ~/bin. just how do you go about doing this

and do you place all of the scripts in ~/bin ????

Thank you

[bluntu]

Have anyone here tried TrueCrypt yet? How is it like?

[Sam]

Hey,All

@ Sam

Sorry for sounding like a big *** here but when you say
and I put it in ~/bin. just how do you go about doing this

and do you place all of the scripts in ~/bin ????

Thank you

If you did no mistake you should have thses files:

/home/<your username>/bin/zenity.askpass
/home/<your username>/bin/mount.encrypted
/home/<your username>/bin/umount.encrypted

Hum... I just thought... I didn't mention to make the scripts executable...

Type in a console:

$ chmod +x ~/bin/zenity.askpass ~/bin/mount.encrypted ~/bin/umount.encrypted

[Razac]

Hi,Sam

Again thanks for all the help but i can't seem to get the scripts
to work for me.??? & i did as you said i put them all in /home/user name/bin

i don't get it works great when i use.

encfs /home/user name/.encrypted_dir /home/user name/unencrypted_dir

&

fusermount -u /home/user name/unencrypted_dir

that's from a Term but as soon as i try using the scripts
no fun

any ideas what maybe wrong

Thank you

[Sam]

What happen if you type in a terminal:

~/bin/mount.encrypted

Post the output please.

[Razac]

Hi,Sam

First sorry for making this so hard on you,but i am trying here
well here is what i got when i did as you asked.


its@ubuntutime:~$ ~/bin/mount.encrypted
/bin/sh: out=`encfs --idle=15 --extpass=/home/user name/bin/zenity.askpass /home/user name/.encrypted_dir/ /home/user name/unencrypted_dir/`: No such file or directory
its@ubuntutime:~$

Thank you

[Ahriman]

where you have "user name", you need to replace that with you actual user name.
eg. my user name is khamsin, so it would like like on mine:

encfs --idle=15 --extpass=/home/khamsin/bin/zenity.askpass /home/khamsin/.encrypted_dir/ /home/user name/unencrypted_dir/

also, make sure that you have the directories created, ~/.encrypted_dir and ~/unencrypted_dir
or you can replace the names with other folder names that you want to use.

See how you go.

[Razac]

Hello,Ahriman

Yes i was not sure if it was some rule, that you had to use
user name in place of my name on the forums or not.

but yes i used my name and i also did
creat, ~/.encrypted_dir and ~/unencrypted_dir

i have no idea what is wrong going nut's here

Thank you all

[Ahriman]

Are you getting exactly the same error message as before? Also, what permissions are on the directories .encrypted_dir and unencrypted_dir ?

[Razac]

Hi,Ahriman

Thanks for gething back at me and to what you asked me yes.
i am stell having the problem, but only when using the scripts
when i goto Term it all works great. ????

and both of them are drwxr-xr-x not sure if this is what you
need from me or not.but it would be a plus to have the scripts work.

Thank you