Interested in encrypted (home) directories?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

poptones [2004-11-22 17:50 +0000]:
> [dm-crypt]

The fact that I do not like about encrypting whole partitions
(dm-crypt, cryptoloop, whatever) is that you either need to ask for
the encryption password as boot time (when mounting the encrypted
partition) or provide every user with his own encrypted partition
(encrypted with his login password, using libpam-mount). The latter
option would mean to preallocate space and partitions for every user.

The per-directory based approaches (with LUFS and FUSE) are a bit more
flexible in this regard.

Is there any way to make device-based encryption similarly easy to
handle?

Thanks,

Martin

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