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On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:54:52AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:06:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > If you encrypt your home directory then you unlock it when you log in so |
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> > logging out of your DE safely locks things again. |
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I encrypt my home partition with LUKS and enter a passphrase |
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during boot. But I always wanted to get decryption upon login running, |
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especially because it would require me to enter one less password. But |
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haven’t gotten around to that yet. |
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> > You most likely want the second option, the odds that you have a valid |
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> > need to protect /usr and /opt are not good. As a regular user out there, |
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> > the stuff you want to protect is in /home (or you could easily move it |
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> > to /home). |
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> With one notable exception. There is sometimes sensitive information |
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> in /etc, like wireless passwords. |
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For that reason I put this stuff into /home/etc/$hostname/ (I back up my |
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machines’ /etc on all other machines, also to have a reference if I need |
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to know “How did I do this on $other_host?”). And then I symlink to |
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that from the real location, i.e.: |
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$ ls -ld /etc/wpa_supplicant |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 28. Mär 21:02 /etc/wpa_supplicant -> /home/etc/hostname/wpa_supplicant/ |
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Cryptsetup comes early enough in the boot process for this to work (both |
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with OpenRC and systemd). |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. |
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I just took an IQ test. The results were negative. |
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