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seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 15:12:15 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:07:24AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 04:59:29PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> > > 
> > > > another benefit (not yet mentioned) is for filesystem encryption. I have / and 
> > > > /home encrypted and /usr not encrypted (for better performance of my laptop)
> > > 
> > > I'm kind of curious about this. What's on / that benefits from being 
> > > encrypted? Logfiles, some stuff in /etc?
> > 
> > Yes to both of those.
> 
> Well, I don't think people have suggested removing /var as a separate 
> mountpoint. The stuff in /etc is a much more interesting case. Do you 
> have some examples?

Password/Shadow files? SSL Certs/SSL Keys for various kinds of daemons
or clients.

RHN ssl certificates and auth keys?

-sv




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