Re: Encrypted home directory

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On 12/21/2008 03:15 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> The other reason to _not_ encrypt the system directories is so that
> system files can be easily mmapped into memory.  And after all, there
> is no secret in the system files.


  Remember also /tmp, /var/tmp and swap - where much a lovely secret can
be found!

  I encrypt /home and /swap and I bind mount /tmp and /var/tmp from
/home/tmp and /home/var/tmp for completeness. If you run certain
services you may want to bind mount /var out of the encrypted partition
as well.


 best,

   gene/

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