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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