On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 09:41:12AM +0200, Rolf Kutz wrote: [...] > An encrypted /home can still be backuped easily by administrators > without being able to see inside.
An administrator (assuming by administrator you mean root or an account with access to root-level privs) can easily trojan the necessary bits of the system and then lie in wait to capture the authentication credentials or the decrypted data itself, unless encryption and decryption is only ever done on a separate remote system to which the administrator has no privileged access. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829); WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(fu...@yuggoth.org); FINGER(fu...@yuggoth.org); MUD(kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); IRC(fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110912204325.gh1...@yuggoth.org