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Title: encrypted file system?
Post by: dwater on December 27, 2004, 07:06:55 AM

Hi

Can someone point me at a 'howto' for creating an encrypted filesystem?

I am looking for something along the lines of Apple's FileVault or BestCrypt that people use here at work on their Windows PCs.

Is there a solution for this sort of thing using SME Server?

Max.

Title: encrypted file system?
Post by: Reinhold on December 29, 2004, 12:15:43 PM

dwater

Have a look at EncFS here:
http://encfs.sourceforge.net/

Remember:
SME~ RedHat 7.3 -> binary packages link on page

Personally I'd always prefer to lock the server away from physical access.

Regards
Reinhold

Title: encrypted file system?
Post by: dwater on December 29, 2004, 12:34:18 PM

Thanks for that, I will look into it.

I was hoping for something that could be done on a per-user basis, so that not even the admin can access the files. Do you know of anything like that?

I do lock my server in a room, but the door isn't completely impervious :|

Thanks!

Max.

Title: encrypted file system?
Post by: Reinhold on December 29, 2004, 05:00:14 PM

Like it says:

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About

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. EncFS runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. You can find links to source and binary releases below.

simply read on:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/

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FUSE makes it possible to implement a filesystem in a userspace program. Features include: simple yet comprehensive API, secure mounting by non-root users, support for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels, multi-threaded operation. etc...

And it's a pretty install/usage simple too...

Regards
Reinhold