On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 07:31:58PM +0300, Alex Sa wrote:
Is there any way to protect these folders? Or give up using 'em? Or any other workaround?encryption via your secure shell?Thanks, PAtrick, but what kind of encryption do you mean? And if these folders will be decrypted after the mutt starts, then they will be available to almost anyone, who will be logged to the machine in the same time? :)
Are you worried about other users on the machine, not including the admin, or also about the admin?
If you're just worried about other users invading your privacy, just point your header_cache to a directory that is owned by you with permissions set to 700. My home directory is 700, which will keep other users out of anything under it.
If you can't trust the admin to respect your privacy, don't get an account on that machine. Outside of a very locked-down, "trusted computing" environment, anything you do to try to secure yourself can be undone by a determined admin. At best you can protect yourself from casual snooping.
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