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mkehd(1)

mkehd1

Create an encrypted home directory disk image

Usage

mkehd [options] ...

Options

-h, -?

display help

-c cipher

set the cipher used by the filesystem (default: aes)

-f filename

name of the disk image to generate (default: ciphertext.img)

-k keybits

set the number of bits in cipher key

-s size

size in MB of generated filesystem (default: 20)

-t fs type

type of filesystem to create (default: ext2)

-u user

name of user to create ehd for (default: current user)

History

  • Debian 5.0 (Lenny): the text shown here
  • Debian 4.0 (Etch)
  • Debian 3.1 (Sarge)

Author

This manpage was originally written by Bastian Kleineidam <[email protected]> for the Debian distribution of pam_mount (libpam-mount) but may be used by others.

See /usr/share/doc/packages/pam_mount/AUTHORS for the list of original authors of pam_mount.

From libpam-mount 0.44-1+lenny3 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.