On 3/30/18, rhkra...@gmail.com <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, March 30, 2018 08:44:53 AM Curt wrote: >> On 2018-03-30, Tomaž Šolc <tomaz.s...@tablix.org> wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > On 27. 03. 2018 03:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I have what might be called a "religious" aversion to storing what >> >> I=20 >> >> consider "real" user data in /home. >> > >> > I'm curious. Why do you have this aversion and where do you store >> > "real" >> > user data? >> > >> > This is the first time I've heard about not storing user data in /home. >> > I thought that's the whole point of /home. >> >> Security through obscurity (rather than vice versa). > > Well, just for the record, that's not how I'd describe it (but, on further > thought), that could be a valid alternate / additional description.
I've thought about it on occasion (/home versus anywhere else for certain user data). I always console myself with.. well-l-l-l, it's password protected, and that's why I go through the repetitious "pain" of entering a password ~20 or more times a day every day even as a private user.. Except that I also know how easily I can access anything I need if I've mangled a partition or something.... e.g. made it unbootable yet I can still snag absolutely anything I need off of it.. That [devil's advocacy] is notoriously a personal *ah-haaa* moment regarding all of the extensive encryption related discussions here on this list.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
