From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 3: 2:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546D337B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 03:02:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E7F43E3B for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 03:02:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9SB1vn64076; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 03:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 03:01:55 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Yann Golanski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/home encryption. In-Reply-To: <20021028105407.GB27215@kierun.org> Message-ID: <20021028025952.Q30424-100000@pogo.caustic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Yann Golanski wrote: > Is there a simple and efficent way to encrypt /usr/home so that only the > user can read his own directory? not really. it would be a processing nightmare anyway. you probably want to simply adjust the UMASK of each user to not allow anyone to read anyone elses home directory. just as effective, and much less CPU overhead. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends." -- Tom Waits To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message