jollyjinx / encfs.macosx

encfs for mac os x using osxfuse

encFS with osxfuse

Be aware that the patches are already inside the official homebrew encfs package. So no need to use this if you are on Mavericks. For 10.8 it might be helpful.

1.7.4 Version of encfs (http://www.arg0.net/encfs) has problems with links on Mac OS X. This is a script to get a working version of encfs on Mavericks. Checkout git version 36d6c6cbd for a version that works on Mountain Lion.

It uses Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) and osxfuse (http://osxfuse.github.com).

Installing with Homebrew

brew update              && \
brew tap jollyjinx/encfs && \
brew install jollyjinx/encfs/encfs

Be sure to follow the instructions in the caveats for osxfuse, similar to:

The new osxfuse file system bundle needs to be installed by the root user:

sudo /bin/cp -RfX /usr/local/Cellar/osxfuse/2.6.2/Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs /Library/Filesystems
sudo chmod +s /Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs/Support/load_osxfusefs

After that you should have a working encfs in /usr/local/bin/.

Example

If you want to use it for your Dropbox Documents directory you could use it like this:

encfs ~/Dropbox/Documents.encfs ~/Documents.secure -- -o volname="Documents"

encfs.macosx's Issues

encfs --version works while using encfs does not

Seems to be a dyld error - I'm looking into it.

What does the patch fix exactly?

I have created symlinks and external attributes on symlinks without problem. The time attributes on symlinks look fine, too. Could you provide an example to reproduce the bugs that the patch fixes?

Github auth requested during brew install

➜  ~  brew install jollyjinx/encfs/encfs
Cloning into '/usr/local/Library/Taps/jollyjinx/homebrew-encfs'...
Username for 'https://github.com':
Password for 'https://github.com':
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/jollyjinx/homebrew-encfs/'

Installation fails

when i try to

brew tap jollyjinx/encfs

as mentioned under "Installing with Homebrew" on Github Page

i get the following Error ...

Clone to '/usr/local/Library/Taps/jollyjinx/homebrew-encfs' ...
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/jollyjinx/homebrew-encfs/' not found
Error: Failure while executing: git clone https://github.com/jollyjinx/homebrew-encfs /usr/local/Library/Taps/jollyjinx/homebrew-encfs --depth=1

I think the repository url should be ...
https://github.com/jollyjinx/encfs.macosx
... instead of ...
https://github.com/jollyjinx/homebrew-encfs/

can you pleas fix this.

Error after encfs.macosx installation

felipelalli:encfs.macosx/ (master) $ encfs -f ~/Dropbox ~/DropboxEncfs [4:10:32]
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: __ZN5boost7archive17xml_iarchive_implINS0_12xml_iarchiveEEC2ERSij
Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/encfsmacosxfuse/1.7.4p2/lib/libencfs.6.dylib
Expected in: flat namespace

dyld: Symbol not found: __ZN5boost7archive17xml_iarchive_implINS0_12xml_iarchiveEEC2ERSij
Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/encfsmacosxfuse/1.7.4p2/lib/libencfs.6.dylib
Expected in: flat namespace

[1] 71472 trace trap encfs -f ~/Dropbox ~/DropboxEncfs

Failed to build on 10.9

https://gist.github.com/oomathias/8f0a0766e2a6285364db

/Applications/Xcode5-DP.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/../lib/c++/v1/__config:45:11: fatal error: 'sys/endian.h' file not found
# include <sys/endian.h>
          ^
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [ConfigReader.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Do you have any idea?

add to homebrew

Can you please add a pull request at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew I'm in the process of getting osxfuse added (Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#21214) and this was my next target.

thanks!
Adam

Support for OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Hi, did someone ever succeed to install and run encfs on OS X 10.10 Yosemite ?

I tried from sources but failed miserably

Point to the official homebrew package

Now that this has been pulled into homebrew in Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#24196, this repository may not be needed any more. If you confirm that the encfs from homebrew works, this repository README should probably just point people there.

brew tap

According to the brew tap documentation the naming conventions for the repos must be observed: there must be a homebrew-encfs repo. I tried brew tap jollyjinx/encfs as per the readme and got:
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/jollyjinx/homebrew-encfs/' not found

Send PR against brew?

Why not send a PR against the main brew repo ?

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/encfs.rb

Use Mac's Trash bin.

How can use Mac's Trash bin feature.
That's important and more secure.
Thanks very much.