On Sat, 22 May 2004 12:54:29 +0200 platanthera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 21 May 2004 17:49, platanthera wrote: > > hi all, > > > > I want to move my home directory to a gbde encrypted partition. > > I plan to have only the default dotfiles in /home/xxx (before > > mounting the encrypted partition), log in as usual, attach and fsck > > the encrypted partion and then mount it 'over' /home/xxx. > > Is there anything wrong with this approach? > > hmm... obviously there is something wrong. I can't unmount my current > home directory later. Not really surprising.. Interesting question. File /etc/passwd is where the system determines where a user's data files will be located. For example, user "robert" on my system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /etc/passwd | grep robert robert:*:1005:1006:User &:/home/robert:/usr/local/bin/bash So just create a special user (using sysinstall), perhaps user "secure". Instead of putting his login directory at /home/secure, put it on /secure (a directory you manually create) and (as root) mount /secure on an encrypted partition. After /secure is mounted, login as user secure. You'll have to tweak permissions of course so that user secure can read/write files on this partition. regards, Robert _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"