EncFs
EncFs
I had the opportunity to check out some encrypted filesystem stuffs recently. The one that really stood out as easy to install. manage and use, for me, was EncFs. Now this post is mostly for posterity, but I wanted to share that, unless you are trying to get it running on RHEL, it’s pretty easy to get set up. I mostly referred to this site and had it up and going lickety-split.. I really am thrilled with how easy this actually was…
Until….
I tried getting it running on RHEL 5. I will spare you all the gory details about how it took hours of peeling through the dependency issues with nonstandard RHEL packages, but you get the idea. What I will leave you with here is what actually made it work:
yum -y install fuse fuse-devel fuse-libs
wget http://packages.sw.be/rlog/rlog-1.3.7-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
wget http://packages.sw.be/fuse-encfs/fuse-encfs-1.4.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh rlog-1.3.7-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh fuse-encfs-1.4.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
modprobe fuse
useradd -G fuse your_user_name
And that was it! Bask in the glory!!!