Re: Questions about cfs

2006-08-24 Thread Michael
Ok I played around a bit and what I got so far is this. A file or directory created by a common user can be access by root as it should be. A file created by root can not read by a user even though the permissions allow it (644). When I issue "chmod 644 file" as root, it works. A directory cre

Re: Questions about cfs

2006-08-24 Thread Michael
Ok I played around a bit and what I got so far is this. A file or directory created by a common user can be access by root as it should be. A file created by root can not read by a user even though the permissions allow it (644). When I issue "chmod 644 file" as root, it works. A directory cre

Re: Questions about cfs

2006-08-24 Thread Michael
Even though I can mount the same encrypted folder with different users and create files, and permissions are 644 or 755 it is not possible to access files/folders created by other users, only own stuff. Neither is it possible, even as the owner, to change the ownership of files/folders inside the

Re: Questions about cfs

2006-08-23 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/23/06, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the other hand, I could just insert the encrypting script (which > reads a key from USB stick and cattaches the encraypted folder) into > .profile and the shared folder gets assigned to the user on login. This seems to work only partly in my sce

Re: Questions about cfs

2006-08-23 Thread Michael
> On the other hand, I could just insert the encrypting script (which > reads a key from USB stick and cattaches the encraypted folder) into > .profile and the shared folder gets assigned to the user on login. This seems to work only partly in my scenario. Even though I can mount the same encrypte

Re: Questions about cfs

2006-08-23 Thread Michael
I got another question, when attaching an encrypted folder the permissions are always set to 0700. When trying to change that I am getting the following error: > chmod: /crypt/root: Operation not permitted I was hoping that I could make a shared world read and writeable folder for all users t

Re: Questions about cfs

2006-08-23 Thread Michael
Nick Guenther wrote: (you have 13 or so partitions you can fit into the disklabel). What am I saying? vnd disks are not connected to wd disks. There should be no arbitrary restriction. What would be the reason for disklabels in this case anyway? I just need a partition which is readable by

Re: Questions about cfs

2006-08-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/22/06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/22/06, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ . . . ] (you have 13 or so partitions you can fit into the disklabel). What am I saying? vnd disks are not connected to wd disks. There should be no arbitrary restriction. -Nick

Re: Questions about cfs

2006-08-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/22/06, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, searches the web but couldn't find and usefull information and/or it didn't answer my questions. I am looking for some software to encrypt some large folders containing personal stuff. It should be possible to decrypt it on BSD and Linux sys