Truecrypt over ssh

I would like to login into my xp cygwin sshd server and use command line truecrypt options to decrypt a partition. Has anyone succeeded in doing this?

On the target machine I can decrypt from the command line.
I can ssh into the target machine, but I can't ssh into the target machine and decrypt from the command line.

Please help!
Patrick

 

I have never used cygwin, but if you use for example Putty and connect to a shell account, and the shell account has truecrypt installed and you have an encrypted container in that machine, I see no problem shh'ing to the shell account and opening the container.

This is not exactly your scenario but it seems close, the only difference I see is that you are using cygwin and XP and the scenario I explained assumes the machine has a Unix OS.

 

i use truecrypt from the CLI with linux.

mount a volume with this command
truecrypt name_of_file_to_mount place_where_you_want_to_mount_it

to unmount use this command
sudo truecrypt -d

you can check it's worked with this command, it lists all truecrypt volumes
sudo truecrypt -vl

EDIT: if it's not working it might be a permissions problem. the user who's SSHing in might not have permission to un/mount the file with truecrypt.

you can check the permissions with this command
ls -l