Questions tagged [encfs]
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Limit file IO speed
I am looking for a command similar to ionice and trickle and pv -L and tc - but which puts limits on IO to files. ionice looks at block devices on the local machine. I want this to work for file I/O ...
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How to password protect a directory in linux? without zipping, changing file permission or encrypting?
I'm a user on a public Linux server. We have a public shared folder which all users can use. I want to create a folder that I only want a few users to access. This can be done in the following ways: ...
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Files lost by encfs
I recently used the software encfs in my ubuntu 18.04 laptop. I created a new stash using the same software in my desktop. I would like to list the steps.... I created a new stash (using green plus) ...
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encfs is slow and is barely using any CPU
I followed this tutorial on how to encrypt my home folder. I imported the stash into the gnome-gui tool and without thought clicked on the "mount" checkbox. As expected, encfs now started to encrypt ...
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Encfs recover from lost+found
I use Cryptkeeper to encrypt an folder on Ext4. By repairing the partition by gparted I got the lost+found folder. How do I decrypt those found files? They should be plain (though encrypted) text ...
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Recover encfs folder password
Is it possible that a chown or any other rights access (delete, write, read, etc) makes the encryption bugs? Yesterday, I have encrypted a folder with encfs on Linux Mint. Today i tried to open it ...
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How to decrypt undeleted files with encfs
I'd like to recover files in encrypted directory by encfs. I put these recovered files in the encrypted directory, but there is no files shown in the mounted and decrypted directory. Is there any ...
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Sudo says "command not found" for script in EncFS (no root access to EncFS mount?)
When an encrypted directory is mounted using EncFS as a regular user, you cannot execute a script in it with sudo (as root): $ sudo /run/media/yeti/usbdrive/encfs/test.sh sudo: /run/media/yeti/...
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Where is encfs password stored
How and where does encfs store the password for an encrypted directory? I understand that encfs uses encfs6.xml to store the actual decryption key encoded using the password. I also understand that ...
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What is the fastest way of checking a encfs password?
Is there any faster way of checking the password of an encfs folder than echo <password> | encfs -S /root/.folder /root/folder
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Don't store the encfs password, require explicit mounting
I use encfs to encrypt some data in my dropbox directory. Everything works well. For simplicity let's assume that i have created the directories ~/encrypted and ~/decrypted. Every time I log in into ...
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FUSE mount from udev gives "Transport endpoint is not connected", fine as root
I have a udev rule that mounts my encfs encrypted backup disk: ACTION=="add",KERNEL=="sd*1",ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="Seagate_GoFlex_Desk_NA0MEYKM-0:0" ,SYMLINK="ext_hd",RUN+="/root/bin/mount.encfs 'Large ...
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share the encfs encrypted ".directory" via NFS
encfs uses FUSE to mount an encrypted directory (a hidden ".directory" by convention) onto another directory specified by the user. I want to share the encrypted ".directory" via NFS where it will ...
2 votes
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Automount with autofs, encfs and keyring access
I have build myself a nice setup: I have encrypted encfs folders that are mountable with autofs, i.e. when I enter the folders they will be automatically decrypted. I have the encfs password added to ...
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Can't install EncFS
I have a 32GB SSD in my laptop and PCManFM 1.2.0 is showing 14.5GB free at the bottom right corner of the screen in the status bar. However, when I try to install an application such as encfs, I get a ...