From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>, Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>,
Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>,
ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ecryptfs is unmaintained and untested
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:23:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251015022344.GA1562@sol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251015013113.GB721110@mit.edu>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 09:31:13PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 01:35:35PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > I've been maintaining the 'fscrypt' userspace tool, and in the past I've
> > done quite a bit of work to improve it. I also use it to encrypt the
> > home directory on my personal desktop.
>
> Do you have integration with PAM? I assume you must if you are
> encrypting your home directory, since there would need to have some
> way to insert the key to unlock your home directory as part of
> single-sign on. Or are you only encrypting something like the Private
> directory on your home directory, and entering the password separately
> fromo the login password.
>
> One of the really nice things of the ecryptfs integration, especialy
> on Ubuntu (and I don't remember if Tyler was responsible for that
> work; if so, kudos!) wasthat it was particularly eeamless.
Yes, there's a PAM module called pam_fscrypt.
- Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-15 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-28 14:18 [PATCH] eccryptfs: select CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD Arnd Bergmann
2024-10-28 15:02 ` ecryptfs is unmaintained and untested Matthew Wilcox
2024-10-28 21:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-10-29 4:33 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-10-30 21:06 ` Tyler Hicks
2026-02-16 11:53 ` René Herman
2025-10-14 6:07 ` John Stultz
2025-10-14 14:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-10-14 16:38 ` John Stultz
2025-10-14 16:54 ` Martin Steigerwald
2025-10-14 17:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-10-14 16:52 ` Martin Steigerwald
2025-10-14 20:35 ` Eric Biggers
2025-10-15 1:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-10-15 2:23 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
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