[luau] Help needed with Loopback Encrypted Filesystems

[Ho'ala Greevy]

howzit,


does anyone here have experience mounting an encrypted file system without
actually having the encryption passwd?  From what I've been able to
discern, this doesn't seem possible.  But, I figure I'd throw it out to
the list in just in case.

btw, the machine in question is running Suse 8.2's crypto file system with
a twofish-encrypted reiserfs partition.  I have root, but that doesn't
seem to matter in this case.

Here's some useful reading:

"Implementing Encrypted Home Directories"
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6481&mode=thread&order=0

"Loopback Encrypted Filesystems Mini-HOWTO"
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=slrnb9bpfb.iqc.news%40loghyr.farmgate&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dchange%2Bpassword%2Blosetup%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dslrnb9bpfb.iqc.news%2540loghyr.farmgate%26rnum%3D2

mahalo,
Ho'ala


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