Please Install the Updated Packages.

eCryptfs is a stacked, cryptographic file system. It is transparent to the underlying file system and provides per-file granularity. eCryptfs is released as a Technology Preview for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. These updated ecryptfs-utils packages have been upgraded to upstream version 75, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. In addition, these packages provide a graphical program to help configure and use eCryptfs. To start this program, run the command: ecryptfs-mount-helper-gui Important: the syntax of certain eCryptfs mount options has changed. Users who were previously using the initial Technology Preview release of ecryptfs-utils are advised to refer to the ecryptfs(7) man page, and to update any affected mount scripts and /etc/fstab entries for eCryptfs file systems. A disclosure flaw was found in the way the &quot ecryptfs-setup-private&quot script passed passphrases to the &quot ecryptfs-wrap-passphrase&quot and &quot ecryptfs-add-passphrase&quot commands as command line arguments. A local user could obtain the passphrases of other users who were running the script from the process listing. (CVE-2008-5188) These updated packages provide various enhancements, including a mount helper and supporting libraries to perform key management and mounting functions. Notable enhancements include: * a new package, ecryptfs-utils-gui, has been added to this update. This package depends on the pygtk2 and pygtk2-libglade packages and provides the eCryptfs Mount Helper GUI program. To install the GUI, first install ecryptfs-utils and then issue the following command: yum install ecryptfs-utils-gui (BZ#500997) * the &quot ecryptfs-rewrite-file&quot utility is now more intelligent when dealing with non-existent files and with filtering special files such as the &quot .&quot directory. In addition, the progress output from &quot ecryptfs-rewrite-file&quot has been improved and is now more explicit about the success status of each target. (BZ#500813) * descriptions of the &quot verbose&quot flag and the &quot verbosity=[x]&quot option, where [x] is either 0 or 1, were missing from a number of eCryptfs manual pages, and have been added. Refer to the eCryptfs man pages for important information regarding using the verbose and/or verbosity options. (BZ#470444) These updated packages also fix the following bugs: * mounting a directory using the eCryptfs mount helper with an RSA key that was too small did not allow the eCryptfs mou ... Description truncated, for more information please check the Reference URL

ecryptfs-utils on CentOS 5

• http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-September/016145.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25