ecryptfs-mount-private(1)

✨ ecryptfs-mount-private(1) — the eCryptfs era 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for ecryptfs-mount-private, straight out of the eCryptfs family, section 1 of the manual (that's the "user commands" section, iykyk). sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get your secrets mounted. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ecryptfs-mount-private — the interactive eCryptfs private mount wrapper script. yes she's a wrapper script, and yes she's iconic for it. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ecryptfs-mount-private

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, just her. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie: ecryptfs-mount-private is a wrapper script for the mount.ecryptfs_private utility. 🫶

the way that it works is: it will interactively prompt you for your login password, but only if necessary. so if it needs it, it asks. if it doesn't, it doesn't. she's lowkey considerate like that. ✨

🌈 FILES 🌈

• ~/.Private — the underlying directory that holds your encrypted data. the locked-up vault fr fr. 🔒
• ~/Private — the mountpoint containing your decrypted data (only when it's mounted, obviously 💀)
• ~/.ecryptfs/Private.sig — the file holding the signature of the mountpoint passphrase 🖊️
• ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase — the file holding the wrapped passphrase 🎁
• ~/.ecryptfs/wrapping-independent — this file exists only if the wrapping passphrase is independent from the login passphrase. so if you see it, that's what's up. 👀

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go read these next, bestie, they're the friend group:

• mount.ecryptfs_private(1)
• ecryptfs-umount-private(1)
• /usr/share/doc/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-faq.html
• http://ecryptfs.org/

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manpage and the ecryptfs-mount-private utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but she may be used by others too, no gatekeeping 🫶).

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 📜✨

and on Debian and Ubuntu systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. 🎀

ecryptfs-utils · 2008-11-13 · that's the version, that's the date, and that's the whole page bestie 💖 mount those secrets and slay. periodt. 💅✨🦋