Create a password protected encrypted file container using TrueCrypt stored in the path ~/encrypted/encrypted.tc. The following script will decrypt this file and mount it as the directory ~/encrypted/encrypted. It will also unmount the directory when you are done.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 | #!/bin/sh # truecrypt-encrypted # Mount and unmount an encrypted TrueCrypt directory. # # Author: Dave Lehman <dave@nowherelan.com>; http://nowherelan.com # Date Created: 2012-01-01 # Version: 1.0 ################################################################################ SCRIPTNAME=truecrypt-encrypted ENCRYPTED_FILE=$HOME/encrypted/encrypted.tc DECRYPTED_MNT=$HOME/encrypted/encrypted mount(){ mkdir -p $DECRYPTED_MNT truecrypt --text $ENCRYPTED_FILE $DECRYPTED_MNT return 0 } umount(){ truecrypt --text --dismount $DECRYPTED_FILE return 0 } status(){ truecrypt --text --list $DECRYPTED_FILE return 0 } case "$1" in --mount) mount ;; --umount) umount ;; --status) status ;; *) echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {--mount|--umount|--status}" >&2 exit 0 ;; esac exit 0 |