Gocryptfs: autounmount?

[pepa65]

Thank you for persisting with this excellent project! I should have switched way earlier. One last feature that I always use on encfs is -i <minutes> (autounmount after minutes).

Do you think this is an undesirable feature? Of course it's a bit of extra code, and it might fail as well, but I think it does increase security when it does work as intended, not having to remember to unmount manually.

[duncanka]

Just dropped in to request this feature and found it was already requested, so adding my +1 in the hopes of raising its priority.

Adding an auto-unmount flag would also allow SiriKali to easily add support for that flag; currently, you can specify a timeout for a gocryptfs stash in SiriKali, but it doesn't actually do anything. (Of course, SiriKali could just disable that option for gocryptfs, but I'd rather see gocryptfs just support it. :smiley:)

[duncanka]

Also, I might conceivably be wiling to help implement this if someone could point me to the relevant portions of the code.

[mhogomchungu]

An additional ability to specify if the mount point should be deleted or not when the volume is auto unmounted will be appreciated.

[RevolverOcelotA]

Try this shell script？usage: ./script cipher plain sleep_time
#!/bin/sh
gocryptfs $1 $2
sleep ${3}m
fusermount -u -z $2

[pepa65]

Since I already deploy gocryptfs through a wrapper script, I'll just add it this way.

[mhogomchungu]

Auto unmount feature does not work the way that script does it.

It auto unmount a volume after a specified period if inactivity is reached. That script unconditionally try to unmount a volume after a specified time has passed since the volume was mounted. The two are completely different.

[mhogomchungu]

Just dropped in to request this feature and found it was already requested, so adding my +1 in the hopes of raising its priority.

Adding an auto-unmount flag would also allow SiriKali to easily add support for that flag; currently, you can specify a timeout for a gocryptfs stash in SiriKali, but it doesn't actually do anything. (Of course, SiriKali could just disable that option for gocryptfs, but I'd rather see gocryptfs just support it. smiley)

Git version of SiriKali now supports the "idle" option of gocryptfs. Latest released version of SiriKali(1.3.6) supports creating and unlocking of gocryptfs volumes in reverse mode.

[rfjakob]

Autoumount support has been merged to master ( 87d3ed9187cb9caccaa8df0769d4cb722cc5bd00 ) and will be in gocryptfs v1.7!