[TriLUG] USB keychains and private keys

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Nathan Conrad wrote:

> Although I do not store my private key on an external device, there is
> a way to make the drive mount with its files having permissions of 400.
>
> The mount command is passed a set of parameters which are in turn
> passed to the filesystem driver. The option that you want is
> umask=700. You pass it to the mount command like:
>
> mount /dev/usb_drive /mnt -t vfat -o umask=700

nice.

This will work fine at home, but then I don't really have a problem at
home, as my keys are on the harddisk. The problem is when I go to another
site I need to bring my private key and I may have to accept the automount
that the machine does.

still it solves the problem

Thanks Joe

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