ecryptfs creates ~/Private directories instead of something like ~/Encrypted
C. Gatzemeier
c.gatzemeier at tu-bs.de
Thu May 6 12:01:00 UTC 2010
Hi,
please comment to recognize the issue.
ecryptfs started to create ~/Private directories by default, but
* ~/priv, ~/private or ~/Private are in use for directories with
private filesystem permissions,
(Managing access permissions among users in an easy directory
based manner with the "user private groups" used in debian/ubuntu
is explained at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiUserManagement)
* and ecryptfs' current ~/Private default does not point out that it
is actually encrypting things in this directory on the disk.
I see the on-disk-encrypted directory provided by ecryptfs is by default
mounted with private permissions (rwx------), but
* We can not assume every private directory is on-disk-encrypted.
* An on-disk-encrypted directory does have to always have
private permissions (not if it is for collaboration by users of the
filesystem tree the directory is mounted on).
I'd like to request a more distinguished default name for
on-disk-encrypted directories.
-Christian
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