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Googling in the subject and reading the user manual of TrueCrypt you get the feeling that TrueCrypt is only usable with root privileges, thus normal users are left in the cold. However, this is only partly true. The system administrator can set things up so that normal users are able to mount TrueCrypt volumes too and without opening up serious security holes.

TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux. To get a sense for the meaning "free", you better read the bundled license.txt ... Anyway, if you're about to build TrueCrypt for yourself (eg. because you want to add a small modification or whatsoever), here's how to do it in Ubuntu Karmic ...