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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-14 12:10:52 -0400 |
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| committer | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-17 12:38:05 -0400 |
| commit | 075a1fcda925000706264a7a2ef0cdd2448a5578 (patch) | |
| tree | 08f1b4e8c4defc8151e80b91ef6f70860d398dd6 /system/ecryptfs-utils | |
| parent | 955d97d4b318f1e732e7d51de689dd7c2fae5f33 (diff) | |
system/ecryptfs-utils: Wrap README at 72 columns.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/ecryptfs-utils')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/ecryptfs-utils/README | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/system/ecryptfs-utils/README b/system/ecryptfs-utils/README index 44fbafb7c282d..3a4711448cbbc 100644 --- a/system/ecryptfs-utils/README +++ b/system/ecryptfs-utils/README @@ -1,15 +1,16 @@ -eCryptfs is a cryptographic stacked Linux filesystem. eCryptfs stores -cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted -files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decrypted with the proper -key in the Linux kernel keyring. There is no need to keep track of any -additional information aside from what is already in the encrypted file -itself. You may think of eCryptfs as a sort of "gnupgfs", or "gnupg as a -filesystem". +eCryptfs is a cryptographic stacked Linux filesystem. eCryptfs +stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, +so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be +decrypted with the proper key in the Linux kernel keyring. There is no +need to keep track of any additional information aside from what is +already in the encrypted file itself. You may think of eCryptfs as a +sort of "gnupgfs", or "gnupg as a filesystem". -On Slackware, the Slackbuild script does not install the mount helper binaries -into /sbin, but to /usr/sbin. Because of this, using `mount -t ecryptfs` won't -work, and you must call the `[u]mount.ecryptfs*` binaries explicitly. +On Slackware, the Slackbuild script does not install the mount helper +binaries into /sbin, but to /usr/sbin. Because of this, using `mount +-t ecryptfs` won't work, and you must call the `[u]mount.ecryptfs*` +binaries explicitly. -For an unprivileged user to use the `[u]mount.ecryptfs_private` executables, -it is necessary to set the suid bit on them, which the Slackbuild script also -does not do. +For an unprivileged user to use the `[u]mount.ecryptfs_private` +executables, it is necessary to set the suid bit on them, which the +Slackbuild script also does not do. |