[aklug] Re: Mount on demand encrypted file system?

From: Christopher Howard <ch.howard@zoho.com>
Date: Mon Apr 11 2016 - 17:17:16 AKDT

Interesting... does that work in a multi-user, multi-device environment?
What happens if two different computers mount and decrypt the same block
device?

On 04/11/2016 08:46 AM, Jay Straw wrote:
>
> A possibility if you want to keep the encryption/password on your local
> box is to have your local box connect to the NAS on a really low level.
> There are several solutions to publish raw block devices over the
> network. Then, you run dm-crypt on your local box and tell it to use
> what it thinks is a local block device, but is really remote on your
> NAS. This discusses several
> options http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/119364/how-can-i-mount-a-block-device-from-one-computer-to-another-via-the-network-as-a
>

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