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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:46:58
Message-Id: 7573e9640608131139u385c645bw33d096f42675eec1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home by Neil Bothwick
1 On 8/13/06, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:32:49 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
3 > Is there any benefit in encrypting the likes of /usr and /opt? Unless you
4 > don't want anyone to know which software you have installed :)
5
6 Not really :-P It was just easy to do since I use LVM and just
7 encrypt the partition that all the LVM volumes live on. The hard part
8 was that I needed a custom-built initramfs to prompt me for the
9 decryption password at boot.
10
11 -Richard
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