I got a good security one more ya.

[Carsten Lange]

Am 31.03.2006, 08:29 Uhr, schrieb Gromitigo <gromitigo at gmail.com>:

> Ok.  If I have files saved as a user, and someone takes my hard drive
> out, puts it in another machine, mounts it...could they read that file
> if they we're root?  What about if I write the files as root?
>

It's like leaving your diary on the park bench.

Root on the other machine can always mount and read the hard drive.

What you want is encryption. But that would slow down your system and  
would not prevent anything like reading if your passphrase is cracked.

/c.

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