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Old 12-16-2010, 07:24 PM   #1
mike11
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can't mount ecryptfs as user


Hi All,

I've setup an ecryptfs folder which I can easily mount/umount as su.

Inspite of adding a `user' option in fstab I'm unable to mount the folder as normal user:
mount secret

gives:
Code:
Passphrase: 
Error attempting to evaluate mount options: [-22] Invalid argument
Check your system logs for details on why this happened.
Try updating your ecryptfs-utils package, and/or
submit a bug report on https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs
and in /var/log/syslog:
Code:
Dec 17 10:20:50 mike mount.ecryptfs: Could not open library handle
Dec 17 10:20:51 mike mount.ecryptfs: do_hash: PK11_HashBuf() error; SECFailure = [-1]; PORT_GetError() = [-8128]
Dec 17 10:20:51 mike mount.ecryptfs: Error generating passphrase signature; rc = [-22]
Dec 17 10:20:51 mike mount.ecryptfs: ecryptfs_add_passphrase_key_to_keyring: Error attempting to generate the passphrase auth tok payload; rc = [-22]
Any ideas?.

Thanks,
Mike.
 
Old 12-17-2010, 08:22 AM   #2
Peverel
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Mike,
I think you need to use setuid in a script: see here for details on setuid;
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...ot-run-as-root

I use Luks rather than encyptfs but it may give you a hint. I have a compiled C program (say openup) where openup.c looks like this:

int main()
{
setuid( 0 );
system( "/bin/bash -c /home/.../opencrypt.sh" );

return 0;
}

where opencrypt.sh is the bash script to open the encrypted folder

Here openup is owned by root with setuid set (was compiled as root, I think); group and others have the exec set.

There may be safer or less clumsy ways of doing it, but that works on OpenSuse.

Last edited by Peverel; 12-17-2010 at 11:37 AM. Reason: Wrong encrypting!
 
Old 12-19-2010, 11:59 PM   #3
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Thanks for replying. I'm not sure it's a setuid issue. If it does then I won't do that anyway since IIRC this entails security issues.
 
  


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