Refinement of automount script for LUKS encrypted disk image
In my previous post I showed an automount script for mounting a LUKS encrypted disk image as a loop device. The script was designed to always mount the same loop device, e.g. /dev/loop0
. This prevented it from being able to mount multiple disk images, so with some tweaks I refined the script to use any available loop device and thus support multiple disk images.
The updated script looks like:
#!/bin/bash # # Automount script to mount LUKS-encrypted disk image file. # # This script must be executable to work (chmod 755). # # Requires losetup and cryptsetup to be available in # one of /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, or /usr/sbin. # # The LUKS key must exist as a file at /etc/<key>.key key="$1" los="" cry="" img="/cifs/lacie-2big/backup/$key.sparseimage" mountopts="-fstype=ext3,defaults,noatime,nodiratime" if [ ! -e "/etc/$key.key" ]; then exit 0 fi if [ ! -e "$img" ]; then exit 0 fi # search for losetup and cryptsetup for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin do if [ -z "$los" -a -x $P/losetup ]; then los=$P/losetup fi if [ -z "$cry" -a -x $P/cryptsetup ]; then cry=$P/cryptsetup fi if [ -n "$los" -a -n "$cry" ]; then break fi done # check if a loop device already attached to this image dev=`$los -a |grep $img |cut -d: -f1` if [ -z "$dev" ]; then # select any available loop device dev=`$los -f` if [ -z "$dev" ]; then echo "No loop device available for mounting $img" >&2 exit 1 fi # attach loop device $los $dev $img # open with LUKS $cry isLuks $dev 2>/dev/null if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then $cry --key-file /etc/$key.key luksOpen $dev luks-`$cry luksUUID $dev` >/dev/null 2>&1 fi fi # print out mapping for automount echo $mountopts / :/dev/mapper/luks-`$cry luksUUID $dev`
This script first checks if the disk image is already attached to a loop device, and if so will not attach it again. When attaching to a loop device, it uses losetup -f
to find any unused loop device and attaches the disk image to that one.
These scripts can be viewed online or obtained via anonymous SVN:
svn co http://msqr.us/svn/pub/twobig/trunk twobig