On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:26:10 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
>
> > > In that case, you probably want to use encfs to encrypt each home
> > > directory separately. dmcrypt works on block devices, so a single home
> > > partition would have a single password.
>
> > dmcrypt supports multiple simultaneous passwords (I think 4 or something
> > like that). Of course, then every user can unlock every home directory
>
> Which is why I recommended ecryptfs (I've only just noticed that the
> previous posts mentioned encfs, that's a FUSE filesystem that is
> unnecessary now the kernel have ecryptfs included).
>
>
Thanks,
I didn't know about that.
I'll try that, as I'm using encfs, and basically it works flawlessly.
But running without fuse, is better.

Kfir


> It's not the multiple passwords, it's separately locking each user's
> data.
>
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>
> Neil Bothwick
>
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