"Bryan J. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: G. Matthew Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Well, I'm confused.
> 
> Once I got into the office at my client, I smacked myself in
> the forehead.  Why?  Not only does RHEL 5 have LUKS via the
> dm-crypt/setup facilities, RHEL 4 has the pre-LUKS facilities
> as well.  A few of my colleagues in Red Hat then smacked me
> again, especially some of the DM guys, because Red Hat has
> been shipping and supporting in RHEL for over 3 years, and
> Fedora for almost 5.

Right, I remember that e-mail now.  It was another long one :)

> 
> > I didn't add anything to do with FUSE, sshfs, etc,
> > though.  Anyone want to argue for those?
> 
> Any security exam should build on other foundation.  So
> consider adding the DeviceMapper foundation into other
> exams, like LPIC-1/2 for the next revision.  Although if
> security-centric, yeah, it's a consideration.

The device mapper (not libdevmapper.so, just /dev/mapper) is mentioned in the
LVM objective in LPIC-2.  In the new objectives for April, at least.

Regards,
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