ecryptfs-mount-private (1)

Interactive ecryptfs private mount wrapper script.

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  4. ecryptfs-mount-private: Interactive ecryptfs private mount wrapper script.

SYNOPSIS

ecryptfs-mount-private

DESCRIPTION

ecryptfs-mount-private is a wrapper script for the mount.ecryptfs_private utility that will interactively prompt for the user's login password, if necessary.

FILES

~/.Private - underlying directory containing encrypted data

~/Private - mountpoint containing decrypted data (when mounted)

~/.ecryptfs/Private.sig - file containing signature of mountpoint passphrase

~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase - file containing the wrapped passphrase

~/.ecryptfs/wrapping-independent - this file exists if the wrapping passphrase is independent from login passphrase

RELATED TO ecryptfs-mount-private…

mount.ecryptfs_private(1), ecryptfs-umount-private(1)

/usr/share/doc/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-faq.html

http://ecryptfs.org/

AUTHOR

This manpage and the ecryptfs-mount-private utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <[email protected]> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian and Ubuntu systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.