Re: one encrypted home directory with remote logins?

[David W. Hodgins]

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:47:33 -0400, Bob F Nord <b...@example.com> wrote:

> What happens if you are logged in and mount another filesystem
> onto your home directory? Anything bad?

Depends on what programs you have running, and what files they
have open. I wouldn't recommend trying this with a gui desktop
manager running.

The approach I use, is to use a regular filesystem for /home,
and have .profile call a script to request the password and
mount an encrypted filesystem, that is mounted as /home/dave/data.
I have symlinks for various directories in my /home, for things
like Documents, .opera, etc.

See http://www.ody.ca/~dwhodgins/Luks-Howto.html

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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