From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA91E1D7E4A; Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:25:17 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760495118; cv=none; b=el70ZAuBGcYHZynNe8tc42mh6Xw9y+6DTOKD90P9aShZfd3dlhRhRrWk4jNr1AqlA+cNBETEvVXEe4pPaVlpDj8omZzPW5taJRQPb4I+qaLYkbShXMciquLslvdEsxClEBTnaWRS4CndIFg0tnReW9aiGsxvMQMpw6h+AcrBF5Y= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760495118; c=relaxed/simple; bh=jqZym1TMaABmKiccCPVlIKepa3RgIHJMjFGuWh0WizY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=AzXFfsyKH6J1yPc0e7x95kSZ+hxvN6at5Lv6eLstaPtWLLbdrPE2EfMTrNim6x89EHDeMupMm/T8ueZ4huG6XUWdJx5+4BT0Wf9h6nxObjPty2vFKjrjSQn59ptNS4Gx7UCkinl+LiWrcfpDkBZav48AIcJJUWS9Mq9k/32P0Uw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=BWl076AJ; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="BWl076AJ" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E8F3C4CEE7; Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:25:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1760495117; bh=jqZym1TMaABmKiccCPVlIKepa3RgIHJMjFGuWh0WizY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=BWl076AJVNJfvKFfTKusNsByr2N3z3wo9ovXYw8h5VELpKysM3ZzNeTJZOQFGQ3aY 6bxhoH3jDkQmFZs18O5enai2FSst3E3pqfRwntHjpZTqmPk1KQ0y6xEJgt408wTZXr g0Gkdn9/CqPrCYxkFDidGeefCHapYZZxtF3MCVH6R68x8LC7M1+4NWN/7SkiTSUCK/ 7zoq4ryLY0wd51rDpVUVAtXVDkjDyG67r8HZIcxODDF60Tus8HwDNj1lDaq9Z2tZHo cOqPJBTz4NVkqizYAeEdXM9TnMuXMfo26TQJ2VXcNWB5+dzr3jeQmHoXuYuW1+NHjn /wciWv5Mevuzg== Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:23:44 -0700 From: Eric Biggers To: Theodore Ts'o Cc: John Stultz , Arnd Bergmann , Matthew Wilcox , Arnd Bergmann , Tyler Hicks , Damien Le Moal , ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ecryptfs is unmaintained and untested Message-ID: <20251015022344.GA1562@sol> References: <20241028141955.639633-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20241029043328.GB3213@mit.edu> <20251014143916.GA569133@mit.edu> <20251014203535.GA1916@quark> <20251015013113.GB721110@mit.edu> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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