ENCRYPTED FILESYSTEM GOCRYPTFS GUI WRAPPER
Gocryptfs-ui is a bash script which provides a simple GUI around the gocryptfs command line utility to mount and unmount an encrypted directory. This script requires gocryptfs, zenity, and xdg-open.
Whenever you want to mount your private directory, you click on the desktop launcher. The launcher runs the script with appropriate directory arguments. The script uses zenity to prompt you for the password and then mounts the gocryptfs directory. If you click on the launcher when the private directory is already mounted, then you are prompted to unmount it. The prompt windows are displayed in the wiki. There are some other options, see the usage below.
My motivation for creating this utility is to provide:
- One mouse click and password entry to access and open a single encrypted personal directory.
- One mouse click to close the directory.
- No background application running.
- No password cached anywhere.
The latest version and documentation is available at http://github.com/bulletmark/gocryptfs-ui.
NOTE: This project supercedes my older encfsui project.
NOTE: Arch users can just install gocryptfs-ui from the AUR and skip to the next section. Other users can install by running:
# Install gocryptfs zenity xdg-utils
git clone http://github.com/bulletmark/gocryptfs-ui
cd gocryptfs-ui
sudo make install (or sudo ./gocryptfs-ui-setup install)
The installation procedure creates a desktop application gocryptfs-ui
which you can run from your DE. By default, gocryptfs-ui mounts your
encrypted ~/.Private dir to unencrypted ~/Private with an
in-activity timeout of 60 minutes. So you should first create an
gocryptfs ~/.Private directory, or
create a link to there from where you keep your encrypted directory.
See man gocryptfs
for details on how to create a new encrypted directory.
You can also copy the /usr/share/applications/gocryptfs-ui.desktop
launcher to your own Desktop Launcher in ~/.local/share/applications/
to use different source or target directory names, or to change the
timeout, etc.
The utility can also be run from the command line. The usage is:
gocryptfs-ui [-options] source_enc_dir target_mount_dir
GUI utility to mount source_enc_dir to target_mount_dir.
If target already mounted then it will be unmounted instead.
Options:
-i <mins> specify idle timeout mins
-o (don't open target dir in file browser)
cd gocryptfs-ui # Source dir, as above
git pull
sudo make install (or sudo ./gocryptfs-ui-setup install)
Copyright (C) 2021 Mark Blakeney. This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more details.