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Subject: Re: Support for geli onetime encryption for /tmp?
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Max Laier wrote:
> 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.

Not if the swap is encrypted (as it is in the case of the OP).