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Subject: Re: best solution for encrypting a mountpoint?
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:14:25 +0200
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"Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
> Hi, Reference:
> > From:		"Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
> > Reply-to:	tyler@tysdomain.com
> > Date:		Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:39:52 -0400
> 
> "Littlefield, Tyler" wrote:
> > Hello all:
> > I would like to encrypt my /home directory. Is there a good solution for 
> > handling this? There is already a partition, so I'd like to unmount it 
> > and somehow set it up so that it will be encrypted.
> > Thanks,
> 
> FreeBSD supports 2 encrypting file systems, I happen to use gbde, try man gbde
> 
> How I use gbde to encrypt mount my /home
> 	 http://berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.sh/gbde2.sh

PS man geli
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com
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