Iron Oxide

I find that I do a lot of reinstalls because I’m a rather big nerd. I love trying new things, and quite often wiping clean is quicker than repairing an operating system I’ve tanked hard. As a result I find that quite often I’m stuck properly resyncing my documents. This devolves into all sorts of merging and permission errors that are a PITA to figure out, more often than not.

But I’ve found a solution. I use Dropbox to store files online, and sync them across all my machines. But I’m paranoid, so in no way in hell will I trust a third party with my private data. As a result I’m storing an Encfs folder inside my Dropbox, which is ludicrously simple to set up.

However, I’m also lazy, and I wanted this to be auto mounted every time I logged into a Linux system. Turns out this isn’t so hard either! With pam_encfs it’s pretty straight forward:

Add the following to /etc/security/pam_encfs.conf:
YOUR_USER_NAME    /home/YOUR_USER_NAME/YOUR_DROPBOX_ENCFS_DIR    /home/YOUR_USERNAME/Documents    -v,--idle=0    allow_other fuse_default allow_other

Add the following to /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/gdm:
auth requisite pam_encfs.so

Add the following to to /etc/fuse.conf:
user_allow_other

You may need to muck about with file permissions a bit, and this can break so hard you’re unable to login so be certain to check if it works by doing:
sudo login

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  font-variant:small-caps;
  text-decoration:none;
}
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  font-weight:normal;
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}
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  height: 275px;
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My host sent me a bill. Seeing as how we’ve just bought a house I’ve come to terms with the lack of necessity in having hosting I used only for a blog.

Say hello to my new tumblr space.