pam_mount: 1.4 released (SourceForge) [LWN.net]

Version 1.4 of pam_mount has been announced. "pam_mount is a Pluggable Authentication Module that can mount volumes for a user session (login). Supports mounting local filesystems of any kind the normal mount utility supports, with extra code to better support CIFS, FUSE, various crypto, and more.This release contains a few LUKS regression fixes."

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pam_mount: 1.4 released (SourceForge)

Posted Nov 27, 2008 21:30 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Now packaged in lzip format (lzma, but with checksums and ident bytes) http://freshmeat.net/p/lzip/

pam_mount: 1.4 released (SourceForge)

Posted Nov 27, 2008 22:51 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

So is the lzma tool obsolete, then, or do we have yet *another*
compressor/archiver?

pam_mount: 1.4 released (SourceForge)

Posted Nov 27, 2008 23:00 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Let me redirect you to http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lzip-bug .

My personal opinion would be yes since it did not come up with an augmented file format supporting checksum and unambiguous magic bytes in a long time.

pam_mount: 1.4 released (SourceForge)

Posted Nov 29, 2008 1:15 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That seems likely. Thanks for the pointer, the arguments for lzip are
pretty compelling.

pam_mount: 1.4 released (SourceForge)

Posted Nov 28, 2008 4:31 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

And the users need to use the new compression format if they want to cryptographically verify that the file they downloaded was produced by you. Interesting way to promote a new format :)