Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-21 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:09:07 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-19 07:57, David Wright wrote: > > The fuse documentation is so fragmentary, scattered and sparse that > > I haven't really got a good feel for what is is or how it works. > > I'm always thinking that I've missed some opti

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 sep 20, 09:57:37, David Wright wrote: > > Do you know if fuse exFAT is a stopgap, and support in the kernel is > eventually coming, or was a fuse implementation necessarily chosen > to support exFAT on account of some particular problem. It seems odd > that pmount, for example, doesn't s

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-19 07:57, David Wright wrote: On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 13:32:16 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If I change the mode of the mount po

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-19 Thread David Wright
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 13:32:16 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > If I change the mode of the mount point to : > > > > Is the

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If I change the mode of the mount point to : Is there some advantage other than making a long listing visually distinctive when the mount

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-16 Thread David Wright
On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote: > > > > > > Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to > > > $HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/ it

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-16 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote: Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to $HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/ it will appear to work correctly but they will not be encrypted!  If you don't move the

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote: > > Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to > $HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/ it will appear to work > correctly but they will not be encrypted!  If you don't move the files out > of $HOME/Private/ before y

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-13 Thread David
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 01:10, David Wright wrote: > Create a permanent mount point with the permissions set to ugo= > ie nothing. I do this for all my permanent mountpoints and then set the immutable bit on them. This prevents accidental writes and the bonus is that ls -l /mnt shows clearly w

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:10:48 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem > within > a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). > > I have two questions about that: > >* if I don't have that LUKS filesy

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread rhkramer
Thank you! (Nothing new below this line.) On Saturday, September 12, 2020 06:14:33 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-12 09:10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem > > within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-12 12:14, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:10:48 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). Why do you want a file system inside a file?

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-12 09:10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I wr

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:10:48 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS > filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a > few reasons). Why do you want a file system inside a file? The only reason I can think of to do tha

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread Bob Weber
On 9/12/20 12:10 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I wr

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 12. September 2020, 18:10:48 CEST schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: Hi, > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem > within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). > > I have two questions about that: > >* if I don't have that LU

Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread rhkramer
I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I write to it, I assume (or hope) that nothing will