Howto: graphical login and encrypted directories on FC6
This howto shows how to create an EncFS-encrypted directory and how to automatically decrypt and mount it through the normal login using PAM.
There are typically two ways to encrypt files on a Linux machine: the first way is to create an encrypted block device which is roughly like a container, the second way is to use a pass through file system encryption, meaning that you have a transparent encryption layer and encrypt file by file on the fly. Both have benefits and downsides, for more information read this comparison.
This howto deals with the second technique using EncFS.
The next step is to integrate encryptinon techniques into the GUIs - and on Linux there are hardly any graphical solutions for any task. Gnome can make a GUI password query when a LUKS device was attached, however KDE is still not there.
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