Comments on: Encrypt your homedir on your mac without FileVault

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:45:17 +0000

@Marco: I think putting ~/Library into the image in it’s entirety is the problem here. Try removing it and just linking the things you need to be encrypted and see if that helps.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:50:08 +0000

I tried this approach just now but I think there’s some information missing:

I put my ~/Library, ~/Desktop, ~/Documents and some other stuff on an encrypted disk image with symlinks in my homedir. It was all fine until I logged off and on again. I can’t get the encrypted disk image to mount at login. When I double click it it gives me an Authentication Error (never asks for a password). The only way to access the files was to login as root and double click the image. When logged in as root I don’t get the Authentication Error but a password prompt as usual.

So… how do I make my mac ask for the encrypted disk image password at login and make everything work as it should?

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Carbon Silk» Blog Archive » Fixing a broken FileVault image on OSX — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:55:05 +0000

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By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:44:23 +0000

@Yuhong Bao: This is true. However, I’m pretty sure if you tried this with your homedir it would crash finder.

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:28:57 +0000

In fact, Mac OS X supports mounting dmgs directly onto a folder. man hdiutil for more info.