Encrypted home directory

[Nikolay Vladimirov]

2008/12/23 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 18:48:47 +0200,
>  Nikolay Vladimirov <nikolay at vladimiroff.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's good to have an option to do both encrypted home and dedicated
>> encrypted dir in home.
>
> What threat are you trying to counter by having a separate encrypted
> directory in your home directory? I would expect selinux to be a better
> solution for the kind of problem one might try to solve with an encrypted
> directory in their home directory.
>

No, because selinux is useless if someone has physical access to my computer.
Booting another os(think live cds) or just doing "single selinux=0".



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NV