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...of=gor.loop bs=1M count=2000 b) luks encrypt it: cryptsetup luksFormat gor.loop c) dev mapper mount it: cryptsetup luksOpen gor.loop luks-gor.loop d) fs it: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/luks-gor.loop e) mount it:? mount /dev/mapper/luks-gor.loop $PWD/gor.rootfs.encrypted f) use it (to simplify I'd put cryptOpen + mount + unmount + luksClose into a script) g) remember!! still at least (depending how you mount it) the 'root' will have access to that data while mounted, obviously! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://list...

...n bringing it up when I rebooted, until I commented it out of fstab. Now, cryptsetup gives me the same UUID as I have in /etc/mdadm.conf. The entry in /etc/crypttab looks identical to the RAIDs for root and swap, but nope. I was able to d an mdadm --assemble -u $(UUID from mdadm.conf), and then a cryptopen luks... but never got anything in /dev/mapper. I'm still fighting - any thoughts? (No, I can't reboot again, like I did this morning, it's now serving four important home directories from another pair of drives with RAID 1.) mark

On 02/17/2020 05:03 AM, lejeczek via CentOS wrote: > On 16/02/2020 15:18, H wrote: >> I wonder if it is possible to set up an encrypted "file container" on a CentOS VPS? I am the root user of the VPS but the hosting company also has access to the VPS and thus all files. Is it possible to create a LUKS-container on the VPS and those files only be accessible by me? IOW, most of