Re: Encrypted home directories

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike@flyn.org>]

>> I just ran across a PAM module, pam_mount, and a patch for it which
>> implements encrypted home directories.
 
>> For example, an encrypted filesystem, call it /home/mike.img, could be
>> mounted by PAM at /home/mike at login time and automatically unmounted
>> upon logging out.

[...]
 
>> I've been looking for a solution like this and was very excited to find
>> pam_mount.  However, I have not been able to find a valid email address
>> for the author of either the module or the encrypted home directory patch.
>> As far as I can tell pam_mount has not been worked on since late in 2001.
>> Perhaps one of them is on this mailing list.

[...]
 
> so you can imagine that i'm really interested to see that code you have
> found. is it possible that you send me the patch or the hole code.

Here is where the code is:

pam_mount: http://pam-mount.conectevil.com/
pam_mount EHD hack: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mukesh/hacks.html

I was able to get a hold of the author of the pam_mount EHD hack.  Here is
what he had to say:

> I'm not sure what the status of pam_mount is. I did send a patch to Elvis
> about a year ago, but it (obviously) wasn't incorporated. At the time I
> sent him the patch, I did mention that there were some bugs (the ones
> mentioned on my web page); it's possible that he was waiting for me to fix
> those before accepting the patch.

> As for the patch, I use it on my personal laptop. So long as it works with
> my laptop (which is usually running the latest Debian release), I don't
> mess with it. You'll notice one update on the page -- that was from a
> friend of mine who wanted to use pam_mount 0.3.2.

> Hopefully, pam and mount won't change much, and things will just continue
> to work.

> I hope that answers your question.

-- 
Mike

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