Re: how to do encrypted homedir for each user

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@welho.com>]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Robert Jaworski wrote:

> --[PinePGP]--------------------------------------------------[begin]--
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe someone can help me.
> I would like to have an encrypted home directory for each user. I have created
> an encrypted partition for each user and would like to have it mounted
> automatically when a user logs in.
> 
> It would be perfect, if the home dir would be mounted with the same password
> like the user uses to log in, but for the beginning it would be good to have
> the user to login with password and again type in the password when his
> homedirectory gets mounted (encrypted file system).

pam_mount (http://www.flyn.org/projects/pam_mount/index.html) does exactly 
this.

	- Panu -

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