cmkkey(1)

cmkkey1

Create secondary copy of cfs directory key

Usage

cmkkey olddir newdir

Overview

cmkkey creates a secondary copy of the key for an encrypted Cryptographic File System (CFS) directory. The secondary key is initially the same as the original key, but can be changed with the cpasswd command.

Only CFS 1.4 or later directories (and not created with cmkdir -o) can have secondary key files.

Files

newdir/..k

New secondary encyrpted key file.

newdir/..data

Link to encrypted directory olddir.

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

  1. 3.0–4.0

Bugs

Any symbolic links in olddir are resolved at the time cmkkey is run; this could cause newdir/..data to break if one of these links moves. (This can be fixed by re-linking to the correct place by hand).

Author

Matt Blaze; for information on cfs, email to [email protected].

From cfs 1.4.1-17 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.