Commit b02a17cb authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: filesystems: convert ecryptfs.txt to ReST

- Add a SPDX header;
- Add a document title;
- use :field: markup;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add table markups;
- Add it to filesystems/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6e13841ebd00c8d988027115c75c58821bb41a0c.1581955849.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 14a19fa5
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
======================================================
eCryptfs: A stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux
======================================================
eCryptfs is free software. Please see the file COPYING for details.
For documentation, please see the files in the doc/ subdirectory. For
building and installation instructions please see the INSTALL file.
Maintainer: Phillip Hellewell
Lead developer: Michael A. Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Developers: Michael C. Thompson
:Maintainer: Phillip Hellewell
:Lead developer: Michael A. Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
:Developers: Michael C. Thompson
Kent Yoder
Web Site: http://ecryptfs.sf.net
:Web Site: http://ecryptfs.sf.net
This software is currently undergoing development. Make sure to
maintain a backup copy of any data you write into eCryptfs.
......@@ -19,13 +23,15 @@ SourceForge site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecryptfs/
Userspace requirements include:
- David Howells' userspace keyring headers and libraries (version
- David Howells' userspace keyring headers and libraries (version
1.0 or higher), obtainable from
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keyutils/
- Libgcrypt
- Libgcrypt
NOTES
Notes
=====
In the beta/experimental releases of eCryptfs, when you upgrade
eCryptfs, you should copy the files to an unencrypted location and
......@@ -33,20 +39,21 @@ then copy the files back into the new eCryptfs mount to migrate the
files.
MOUNT-WIDE PASSPHRASE
Mount-wide Passphrase
=====================
Create a new directory into which eCryptfs will write its encrypted
files (i.e., /root/crypt). Then, create the mount point directory
(i.e., /mnt/crypt). Now it's time to mount eCryptfs:
(i.e., /mnt/crypt). Now it's time to mount eCryptfs::
mount -t ecryptfs /root/crypt /mnt/crypt
mount -t ecryptfs /root/crypt /mnt/crypt
You should be prompted for a passphrase and a salt (the salt may be
blank).
Try writing a new file:
Try writing a new file::
echo "Hello, World" > /mnt/crypt/hello.txt
echo "Hello, World" > /mnt/crypt/hello.txt
The operation will complete. Notice that there is a new file in
/root/crypt that is at least 12288 bytes in size (depending on your
......@@ -59,10 +66,13 @@ keyctl clear @u
Then umount /mnt/crypt and mount again per the instructions given
above.
cat /mnt/crypt/hello.txt
::
cat /mnt/crypt/hello.txt
NOTES
Notes
=====
eCryptfs version 0.1 should only be mounted on (1) empty directories
or (2) directories containing files only created by eCryptfs. If you
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cramfs
debugfs
dlmfs
ecryptfs
fuse
overlayfs
virtiofs
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