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Date:      Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:32:54 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Daniel Thiele <dthiele@gmx.net>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>, shaun@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Support for geli onetime encryption for /tmp?
Message-ID:  <200912130032.54740.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091212224052.GF1417@arthur.nitro.dk>
References:  <4B24143E.2060803@gmx.net> <20091212224052.GF1417@arthur.nitro.dk>

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On Saturday 12 December 2009 23:40:53 Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2009.12.12 23:07:58 +0100, Daniel Thiele wrote:
> > Is there maybe another way to achieve onetime /tmp encryption that
> > I am missing? Preferably one that does not involve huge changes to
> 
> Well, I use the simple one - make /tmp a memory file system.  locate
> is sometimes not too happy with an e.g. 50MB /tmp, but otherwise it
> works very well for me.
> 
> [simon@arthur:~] grep tmp /etc/rc.conf
> tmpmfs="YES"
> tmpsize="50M"

but tmpfs pages are swappable IIRC.  This would mean that the data might end 
up unencrypted on secondary storage.

--
 Max



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