Hi Matthias and Stuart - Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
I find that "umount -l" gives a little added privacy. The "Lazy"-umount erases the mountpoint from the global namespace. Effectively erasing it from the radar of any process that hasn't anything "open" inside that particular mountpoint.
Fascinating! I had no idea such a thing existed. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any such feature for Solaris x86, which is the platform with which I am concerned. A pity, because that would be ideal -- very clever! Still, I was also curious as to solutions with Linux or general Unix, so thanks for the information! Stuart Blake Tener wrote: > With multiple people logged in as root, your system > administrator should be canned. It's not that bad. Just typically one administator - me - on the system, but the root password is known to others, who might decide at any time to login and have a look around. I'd like to be able to work on various local files and such knowing that they wouldn't be able to read anything I deem to be private, should they intrude. > Now getting a product that is (at least) running Windows and > Linux, you have the TrueCrypt, and since it is open source perhaps > it will get ported to MacOS and Solaris. Interesting; I'd never heard of TrueCrypt, just looked it up, thanks for the tip. As it stands I right now I don't know of any encryption product for Solaris x86, but I dare say there must be something out there. Cheers, Alex. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
