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On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:26:10 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> > In that case, you probably want to use encfs to encrypt each home |
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> > directory separately. dmcrypt works on block devices, so a single home |
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> > partition would have a single password. |
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> dmcrypt supports multiple simultaneous passwords (I think 4 or something |
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> like that). Of course, then every user can unlock every home directory |
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Which is why I recommended ecryptfs (I've only just noticed that the |
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previous posts mentioned encfs, that's a FUSE filesystem that is |
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unnecessary now the kernel have ecryptfs included). |
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It's not the multiple passwords, it's separately locking each user's |
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data. |
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