Bug 69959 - PAM should support mounting encrypted home directories
Summary: PAM should support mounting encrypted home directories
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: pam
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Jay Turner
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-26 21:05 UTC by W. Michael Petullo
Modified: 2015-01-07 23:58 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: FE4
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-08-07 15:56:25 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch for pam_mount which adds encrypted loopback device support (48.65 KB, patch)
2002-07-26 21:08 UTC, W. Michael Petullo
no flags Details | Diff

Description W. Michael Petullo 2002-07-26 21:05:20 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020625

Description of problem:
A PAM module named pam_mount that, when patched, allows PAM to mount an
encrypted home directory for a user at login time.  When the user logs out, PAM
unmounts the encrypted volume.  This is a very nice security feature.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Red Hat Linux does not support mounting encrypted home directories at login time.

Additional info:

Pam_mount is available at http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~epx/pam_mount/.  It is
not yet a component of the mainstream PAM distribution.  I will attach a patch
for pam_mount 0.3.2 which adds encrypted loopback device support.  Also required
is the crypto patchs mentioned in bug number 56698 (this bug should depend on
56698).

Pam_mount includes a good README.  I have been using these packages successfuly
on my computer for some time.  Of course, your mileage may vary.

Comment 1 W. Michael Petullo 2002-07-26 21:08:26 UTC
Created attachment 67305 [details]
Patch for pam_mount which adds encrypted loopback device support

Comment 2 W. Michael Petullo 2002-08-15 17:01:57 UTC
Pam_mount now officially supports encrypted volumes.  New versions of pam_mount
are available at http://www.flyn.org.

Comment 3 W. Michael Petullo 2005-08-07 15:56:25 UTC
There is now a pam_mount package in Fedora Extras that provides this 
capability.


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