encrypted drives

[Erik Norgaard]

Igor Robul wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:14:32AM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote:
>> home partition which is fine for single user laptops, but on multiuser 
>> systems, each home directory should be distinct encrypted partitions in 
>> order not to disclose data to other users.
> Maybe I'm wrong, but what happened with file system permissions? :-)
> 
> You can encrypt /home and then set 0700 permissions on user home
> directories.

It is not that file permissions doesn't work but having data that is not 
yours unencrypted lowers the barrier for trespassing. Evil admins - even 
if only temporarily evil - can access data they shouldn't.

On any system I share I would prefer to know that when I'm not there not 
even the sysadmin can access them. And I believe that anyone would 
prefer that.

Cheers, Erik

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