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Tobias Sjösten
Asked: 2011-07-27 03:34:57 +0800 CST

Enable ACL for eCryptFS mounted home directory

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I am running Ubuntu 11.04 with the "encrypt home directory" feature. This uses eCryptFS to encrypt and mount my home directory. Now I need to enable ACL for this mount but since it's not configured in /etc/fstab I don't know how to do that.

Enabling ACL for my / mount doesn't do anything for me. These are two of mount mounts:

$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,acl,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
/home/tobias/.Private on /home/tobias type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs,ecryptfs_sig=2be72e2e03c0d2a1,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=f8f38af9c5e2c0e2)

Any ideas on how to enable ACL for /home/tobias?

ubuntu access-control-list ecryptfs

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    eCryptFS does not support ACLs, but apparently there are some people working on that.

    See: http://130.245.27.2/~rdhaliwal/Final_Report.pdf

    THE file system eCryptfs aims at providing advanced security mechanism for file systems using existing cryptographic technologies. It provides several policy features but does not provide Access Control List (ACL) support.

    http://ankushgulati.weebly.com/projects.html

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