Re: [Bug 277894] Re: anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories

2008-11-12 Thread Jessie Lawrence
if you explain all of the problems in detail (if any), people will be able to think of ways around them. post them here! On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Jessie Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also, we have plenty of time to implement something like this, but > only if someone gets to work o

Re: [Bug 277894] Re: anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories

2008-11-12 Thread Jessie Lawrence
also, we have plenty of time to implement something like this, but only if someone gets to work on this NOW. before its too late, otherwise it will be another one of those failed features that didnt make it. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Jessie Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > whats contro

Re: [Bug 277894] Re: anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories

2008-11-12 Thread Jessie Lawrence
whats controversial about security? if encrypting the users home directory (other than the public folder) by default doesnt cause any problems, then there is no reason why it shouldnt be. if there are problems, enlighten me. plus, you should be able to enable and disable this feature through one o

Re: [Bug 277894] Re: anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories

2008-11-12 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Jessie Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, cool. but i think that there should be a way to enable this through the > gui, like in mac Perhaps. There's some problems with this, at least in my head, that I don't know how to solve yet. We'll see. > also, is t

Re: [Bug 277894] Re: anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories

2008-11-11 Thread Jessie Lawrence
ok, cool. but i think that there should be a way to enable this through the gui, like in mac also, is there any particular reason why it should not be enabled by default? are there any problems with it? On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Dustin Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > As I have said a

Re: [Bug 277894] Re: anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories

2008-11-11 Thread Dustin Kirkland
As I have said above, I'm work on seamless home directory encryption for Jaunty. I have it working in several virtual machines, and on my primary laptop. I'm still bringing together the pieces to automate the setup thereof. It will *not* be the default. However, I do hope that it is an option o

Re: [Bug 277894] Re: anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories

2008-11-11 Thread Jessie Lawrence
well, actually, if doing something like this in ubuntu will cause complications, then maybe it shouldnt be enabled by default. but someone should certainly try to do something like this and avoid any complications, because this seems like a really nice feature. if someone makes something like this

Re: [Bug 277894] Re: anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu -- encrypt home directories

2008-11-11 Thread Jessie Lawrence
hmm, thats strange. thats what happened to me. and i was even using 10.4 i put in the ubuntu live cd and when i tried to backup some files, i couldnt unless i entered the right password and stuff, and then i only had access to the public folder. that was my experience, i didnt read about it anywhe

Re: [Bug 277894] Re: anyone with a livecd can acces data on ubuntu

2008-11-09 Thread Jessie Lawrence
that is an excellent idea! perfect! genius! On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Dustin Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently working encrypting the entire user's home directory. I'm > going to propose this again for Jaunty. > > :-Dustin > > ** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu) >