umount.ecryptfs_private1

Usage

Options

Options available for the umount.ecryptfs_private command:

-f

Force the unmount, ignoring the value of the mount counter in /tmp/ecryptfs-USERNAME-Private

Overview

umount.ecryptfs_private is a mount helper utility for non-root users to unmount a cryptographically mounted private directory, ~/Private.

If, and only if:
- the private mount passphrase is in their kernel keyring, and
- the current user owns both ~/.Private and ~/Private, and
- ~/.Private is currently mounted on ~/Private
- the mount counter is 0 (counter is ignored if -f option is used)

This program will:
- unmount ~/Private

The only setuid operationis in this program are the call to umount and updating /etc/mtab.

The system administrator can add the pam_ecryptfs.so module to the PAM stack and automatically perform the unmount on logout. See pam_ecryptfs(8).

Files

~/.Private - underlying directory containing encrypted data

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

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

/tmp/ecryptfs-USERNAME-Private - file containing the mount counter, incremented on each mount, decremented on each unmount