Bind ubuntu to hard drive.

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

TwinZ Ubuntu Mailing List wrote:

> You are partly right, partly wrong. I do not (and there wouldn't be any
> sense to it) want to protect the OS itself. But, correct me if I am wrong,
> configuration files say for networking, postfix, apache and mysql do reside
> in the system. So, yes, I do need to encrypt the system as well.

Not really. If you're actually running those services you can't encrypt
them anyway (or rather they'll always be in an unencrypted state
regardless), and they really don't contain a significant amount of
sensitive information anyway. Especially if the services themselves
aren't public facing to begin with, like a "test" or "development" box.

The daemons themselves and Linux being multi-user from the ground up
pretty much give you all the protection you're likely to need, and if
an attacker has gained physical access to the machine while running,
even with encryption, none of it matters anyway.

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