Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypted Directories

2008-10-06 Thread James Westby
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 21:59 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: Gents Thanks for the responses - I really was trying to find out if, for any hardware or software reason, a usre could no longer access their encrypted files, if a user with appropriate privilages could. Not looking at this in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypted Directories

2008-10-05 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 10:13 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: 2008/10/3 Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Evening all A quick question on how the forthcoming encryption will work. Can it be set up to allow root to access the encrypted files as well as the legitimate owner? Ian Hi Ian,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypted Directories

2008-10-05 Thread Neil Greenwood
2008/10/3 Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Evening all A quick question on how the forthcoming encryption will work. Can it be set up to allow root to access the encrypted files as well as the legitimate owner? Ian Hi Ian, I don't know the details of the proposal yet, but I seem to recall

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypted Directories

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Coulson
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 12:15 +0100, James Westby wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 10:13 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: 2008/10/3 Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Evening all A quick question on how the forthcoming encryption will work. Can it be set up to allow root to access the encrypted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypted Directories

2008-10-05 Thread James Westby
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 19:41 +0100, Chris Coulson wrote: The root user will still be able to read files if the user is logged in, because the private folder will be mounted. Hi Chris, That's very true. Thanks for pointing it out. Would an apparmor profile be able to prevent root from reading

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypted Directories

2008-10-05 Thread Neil Greenwood
2008/10/5 James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 19:41 +0100, Chris Coulson wrote: The root user will still be able to read files if the user is logged in, because the private folder will be mounted. Hi Chris, That's very true. Thanks for pointing it out. Would an apparmor