ragnar

Mount an existing remote LUKS device with NBD over SSH. This has the advantage of never exposing your LUKS keyfile to the server, as all encryption/decryption takes place on your local machine.

You must have an existing LUKS device with a keyfile being exported by NBD on some remote server. Your NBD server should be behind a firewall, and only listen on localhost.

Environment Variables

RAGNAR_SERVER: Server to connect to (can be a host alias from ~/.ssh/config). Defaults to localhost.
RAGNAR_NBDEXPORT: Name of remote NBD export (see remote /etc/nbd-server/config). Defaults to ragnar.
RAGNAR_KEYFILE: Path to LUKS keyfile. Defaults to /etc/luks/${RAGNAR_NBDEXPORT}.key

Usage

Open

$ ragnar open
[sudo] password:

ragnar: Opening SSH connection to localhost ...
ragnar: Opening network block device on /dev/nbd0 ...
ragnar: Opening LUKS device from /dev/nbd0 ...
ragnar: Mounting filesystem from /dev/mapper/ragnar ...
ragnar: Filesystem is mounted on /media/ragnar

Close

$ ragnar close
[sudo] password:

ragnar: Closing filesystem on /media/ragnar ...
ragnar: Closing LUKS device from /dev/nbd0 ...
ragnar: Closing network block device on /dev/nbd0 ...
ragnar: Closing SSH connection to localhost ...

License

This software is released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE.

Peter-Levine / ragnar