Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:45:23 -0800 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: a virtual CFS home directory Message-ID: <3A0DBDF3.80C5EB62@home.com>
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I've been trying to set up a cryptographic file system virtual home directory. So far, cfs has worked very well. I have created a new user account for myself and made the virtual directory with all of the dot files and "rc" files for this new account. What I am having trouble figuring out is how to automate the process, so when I log in, after I enter my login password, I then give my password for the cfs virtual home directory, and I am automatically in the virtual directory. I wrote a simple shell script and call it at the end of /etc/profile. If $LOGNAME is equal to my new user account, it calls "cattach" and afterwards tries to set $HOME to the virtual directory. Unfortunately, I alway end up with / as my home directory, since bash can't find the virtual directory until cattach is called, and since exporting a new $HOME doesn't seem to work. I wonder if there is any simple way to assign a new home directory at the end of the login process, but after "profile" is executed? I will keep looking through my O'Reilly bash and csh books. If I can figure all this out I am going to write it up into a HowTo. Seems like a nice system for securing the data in a laptop. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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