Encrypted filesystem image

[JD]

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey F. Bloss
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 5:00 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Encrypted filesystem image

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+tru
ecrypt

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.

I looked through some of the latest code on the forge for this project, and
didn't see anywhere that documented (either by verbage or by code
restriction) the 2Gb Volume Limit.  Was this from personal trial-and-error,
or through some other source that you came by this information?
(I really like truecrypt, but the old forcefield gui gave up the ghost a
while back - Dapper, I think - and, short of re-writing it myself, I was
hoping to find a decent gui for tc volumes...)

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