On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:34:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Alternatively, you could do the same with the in-kernel ecryptfs. > > These two solutions work in much the same way, allowing you to mount > > individual directories with their own passwords, so you could have a > > single /home with each user's directory having its own password. You > > back up the encrypted data, so no passwords are needed for this. > > ecryptfs-utils apaprently is for ~x86 only. Any idea of when it will > be ready for ~amd64?
It worked on amd64 when I tried it. You just need to add the utils package to /etc/portage/package.keywords. > I do have encfs emrrged on all machines, so I can start there with > experimentation; it does encrypt file names, but I'd rather have a > solid encrypted block than bits and pieces. I suppose that might not > matter a whole lot. ISTR that ecryptfs doesn't encrypt filenames, but it's been a while since I used it. In that respect it was inferior to encfs (unless this has changed) but it was faster. -- Neil Bothwick "But, I DO know everything." - Q.
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