Comments on: Automatic encryption of home directories using TrueCrypt 6.2a and pam_exec

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:15:47 +0000

Does it work with TrueCrypt 7.0a?

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:07:11 +0000

I'm using a FAT fs for my tc volume (not sure if relevant) but when it gets mounted, it's mounted as root, not the logging in user.

Is there some way round this?

Cheers for the article

By: Choppers

Choppers — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:02:32 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:22:41 +0000

Thanks for script.
For Ubuntu 10.04 and TrueCrypt 6.1a in /bin/cryptmount.sh file
instead:
head -c -1 | truecrypt -t –protect-hidden=no -k "" \
"$CRYPTVOLUME" "$MOUNTPOINT"
I changed to:
head | truecrypt -t –protect-hidden=no -k "" \
"$CRYPTVOLUME" "$MOUNTPOINT"
Because truecrypt (in this version) expect new line character after password

By: Jochen Ritzel

Jochen Ritzel — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:41:18 +0000

Hey, thanks for all this, I had no idea what PAM can do, but worked out great. I just wanted to say that by now, `pam_exec` works out of the box on ubuntu, no need to compile anything. Also, it's much simpler to mount your encrypted media when you save them as favorites and mount them with `truecrypt –auto-mount=favorites –load-preferences` and dismount them with `truecrypt –dismount`

By: Henryk

Henryk — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:46:34 +0000

@Reid:
Yes, you're absolutely right. I fixed the post. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience to all.

By: Reid Linnemann

Reid Linnemann — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:28:18 +0000

I think there's a typo/misnomer here in rolling your own pam_exec.so. pam_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz doesn't have pam_exec patched for expose_authtok. I grabbed pam_1.1.0_orig.tar.gz and built a working pam_exec.so using the remaining instructions. If you follow the instructions as-is, the pam_exec module will think 'expose_authtok' is the command to run in the child process.

By: Little Impact » Blog Archive » Automatic encryption of home directories using TrueCrypt 6.0a

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:22:59 +0000

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By: Little Impact » Blog Archive » Automatic encryption of home directories using TrueCrypt

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:09:45 +0000

[...] Update: There is a more current version of this post dealing with TrueCrypt 6.2 and Ubuntu 9.04:Automatic encryption of home directories using TrueCrypt 6.2 and pam_exec. [...]