Encrypted homedirs revisited
Posted By matt on March 24, 2005
So, I've been pondering this more, and it occurs to me that a LOT of stuff breaks:
- gdm (I had problems with it when my NFS was broken; can't read some info or something. I presume it would have the same problem too)
- cron (okay, cron will still work, but if you're running anything in your homedir, you can't get to it)
- public_html directories (you know, the kind that web sites are hosted on)
- .forward and .vacation files (used by some mail servers)
I'd think that the Macs have the same problem.
Perhaps the better course of action is an encrypted folder that sensitive information is put in to. Of course, this would have to be all the sensitive stuff, like the .firefox and .thunderbird directories, as well as any other sensitive documents and all that crap.
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