Mount encrypted (password protected) volumes

Is there an API that allows mounting a volume, just like DADiskMount(), but that also accepts a password or automatically requests keychain access for encrypted volumes? Could be APFS or CoreStorage volumes. How do you mount those programmatically?

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Hi,

No, I'm afraid there isn't an API that will do this, but the "diskutil" command line tool does handle this pretty well. I believe the basic "diskutil mount" command will automatically authenticate (going through the keychain and asking the user if necessary), but APFS (diskutil ap <command>) and CoreStorage (diskutil cs <command>) also have their own "unlockVolume" commands which provide more specific options/control. Note that diskutil commands also accept a "-plist" option to facilitate programmatic control.

-Kevin Elliott
DTS Engineer, CoreOS/Hardware

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