On Wed, June 21, 2006 9:05 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Not true.
> - From "man shred" regarding ext3:
> In both the data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes,
> shred works as usual.
> Since it does not work on other journaled FS, that's why I suggested
> it be an option.
>> Are you using ext2 for your server FS?
>> Encrypting the partition or the whole storage should be a better
>> solution.

Is this really necessary though?  Wouldn't it require root or physical
access to the server to read deleted files?  If a malicious user has that
level of access you're screwed anyways because now they can read mail as
it comes in and goes out.  And again, this does nothing to prevent clients
from caching emails.  This still seems like it should be performed at the
FS level to me, have you Googled around to see if any filesystems support
a "true delete"?

Jay
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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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