port vncrypt?

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Tue Mar 16 14:55:23 PST 2004


Hiten Pandya wrote:

Johannes Hofmann wrote:

Hi,
would it be a good idea to try a port of security/vncrypt from FreeBSD 
to DFB, or is there some other possibility to create encrypted 
filesystems that
better suits DFB?
If you think vncrypt would be a nice thing to have, I would try to 
create an
override port.

Regards,
Johannes
    I came up with this in about half an hour, I am not sure if it
    works since I have not tried loading it or doing any hanky panky
    but please, give it a go.. I am quite helpful it will work:
    http://people.freebsd.org/~hmp/dragonfly/vncrypt_test.diff

    Feedback welcome,
	I forgot to mention, that the userland utilities might
	make noise about include files and generate scarry
	warnings, just change <dev/vncrypt/vn_crypt.h> to
	"vn_crypt.h" in the necessary files, and copy or
	symlink the header files to that dir, as a temporary
	fix.
	Just tried to use the vncrypt device as per the
	instructions, and it works dandy.  By the way, use
	newfs /dev/vnc0c, since 5-CURRENT removed the
	concept of the 'c' node, otherwise you will get
	weird warnings when you just pass 'vnc0'.
	It works, I can mount, unmount, change passphrase
	do all the stuff.  When I get some time later tonight
	I will cleanup the patch and try to push the changes
	upstream to the author.
	Cheers,

	-Hiten
	Hiten Pandya
	hmp at xxxxxxxxxxxxx || hmp at xxxxxxxxxxx





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