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[all variants] pam_usb X eCryptfs

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Has anybody been successful using pam_usb (login authentication with a USB flash drive) with an encrypted home directory? I configured pam_usb and I was able to authenticate with a flash drive. However, when I restarted the computer, GDM no longer would log me in. Testing with an unencrypted home worked, revealing that the problem is the encrypted home. There is a directory ~/.pamusb/ where pam_usb stores the one-time pad and it seems it searches for this file upon login. Since my home in encrypted, it can't find it. I moved my ~/.pamusb/ to an unencrypted area and made a symbolic li (Hardware)

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Submitted by linuxfan on 03/16/2012 – Made popular on 03/16/2012

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There is an application that is used to usb-stick based authentication, named pam_usb I am able to configure it for that in case if usb is not plugged, system does not allow to login.

[ubuntu] eCryptfs and PAMUSB 5 weeks 5 days ago

First, I appreciate any help that anyone can offer.

Question: Can I create an encrypted directory with ecryptfs that exists outside of my home directory, which uses the same decryption credentials that my encrypted home directory uses?

Here's the situation:

Code: /dev/sda1 (SSD): / /dev/sdb1 (HDD): /home /dev/sdb2 (HDD): /var and /tmp The above works fine, but I have 80GB free on /dev/sda1 that I'd like accessible from my home directory

Firstly, my goal is to cause my machine to lock any time a usb key is removed, and then open and present a password prompt when the usb key is replaced.

I've downloaded and installed the pam_usb module to accomplish this.

I'm using ecryptfs for an encrypted home directory. I would like to try out the mount option "ecryptfs_xattr" on my encrypted home directory, because it will probably improve performance. Can I specify this option somewhere, and still have it decrypt the home when I log in? (I assume I have to re-create the encrypted home directory, that's no problem)

Hey folks, I already encrypted my home directory as describend in the wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EC … 8simple.29mount says /home/.ecryptfs/michael/.Private on /home/michael type ecryptfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=11111111111111111111,ecryptfs_sig=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs)MY GOAL IS: Encrypt a Folder &quot

I'm currently using Kubuntu 10.04 with my home directory encrypted with ecryptfs. My home directory is automatically decrypted when I login without requiring me to enter an additional password for dm-crypt. I really want to be able to switch to OpenSUSE 11.3 but this might be a deal breaker.

I have Ubuntu Karmic. I chose to install with an encrypted home directory.

Recently I got a warning that I only had 2GB of drive space left. This is mostly because of my videos. So I went and bought a new hard drive and partitioned it and made 1 ext4 partition and copied my videos all to the new hard drive.

I am having issue with my encrypted ecryptfs home directory after I log out and log back in. The home directory won't auto mount and I tried to execute "ecryptfs-mount-private" manually and it does not seem that it does anything.

I have to reboot the box to see my home directory again.

Any idea what is going on and how to fix that? Let me know if you need any additional logs.

Thanks