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-eCryptfs is a cryptographic stacked Linux filesystem. eCryptfs stores
-cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted
-files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decrypted with the proper
-key in the Linux kernel keyring. There is no need to keep track of any
-additional information aside from what is already in the encrypted file
-itself. You may think of eCryptfs as a sort of "gnupgfs", or "gnupg as a
-filesystem".
+eCryptfs is a cryptographic stacked Linux filesystem. eCryptfs
+stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written,
+so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be
+decrypted with the proper key in the Linux kernel keyring. There is no
+need to keep track of any additional information aside from what is
+already in the encrypted file itself. You may think of eCryptfs as a
+sort of "gnupgfs", or "gnupg as a filesystem".
-On Slackware, the Slackbuild script does not install the mount helper binaries
-into /sbin, but to /usr/sbin. Because of this, using `mount -t ecryptfs` won't
-work, and you must call the `[u]mount.ecryptfs*` binaries explicitly.
+On Slackware, the Slackbuild script does not install the mount helper
+binaries into /sbin, but to /usr/sbin. Because of this, using `mount
+-t ecryptfs` won't work, and you must call the `[u]mount.ecryptfs*`
+binaries explicitly.
-For an unprivileged user to use the `[u]mount.ecryptfs_private` executables,
-it is necessary to set the suid bit on them, which the Slackbuild script also
-does not do.
+For an unprivileged user to use the `[u]mount.ecryptfs_private`
+executables, it is necessary to set the suid bit on them, which the
+Slackbuild script also does not do.