Encrypted filesystem image

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> 2) I've looked at truecrypt, but either I'm doing something wrong or 
> Ubuntu isn't entirely truecrypt friendly with how it mounts the 
> truecrypt files and/or permissions with root and the admin user when 
> mounting the image so I have problems with copying files to the image 
> file because it gets mounted as root and I'm trying to use it as a
> user.

You need to change permissions on the truecrypt executable from their
defaults if you want to create/mount volumes as a user. Here's one set
of instructions...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=369293&highlight=How+to+install+truecrypt

You might also be interested in the newly released Scramdisk for
Linux...

http://sd4l.sourceforge.net/

It's a nice GUI application, and allegedly compatible with Truecrypt
volumes, however in my experience it won't handle volumes larger than
2GB. That's just from a cursory examination however.

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