On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:38:40PM +0100, RKI Andreas wrote: >> 3. The server medical data (Postgres cluster for GNUmed, dumps, >> downloaded HL7 messages etc) should live on an encrypted partition. >> Truecrypt seems to have become the standard for multi-OS encryption but >> its license does not qualify for direct Debian distributions. Is it >> still wiser / better to use it, over (say) cryptmount? >> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/506 > > I would stick to the default encryption method that is used at installation > time. I admit I did not cared what actually is used. (I only care about > things that do not work as I want them to work and there was no need to > worry about anything so far.) Which, however, requires to determine whether the defaults are suitable. Something may work w/o problems but not be suitable, such as would the lines
local * * * trust host * * * trust hostssl * * * trust at the top of pg_hba.conf. They will allow access just fine but are NOT suitable. > BTW, regarding GNUmed server packages: It is not that I would not like to > build thos packages but I feel that they require a certain amount of time > to test any make sure that everything works fine. Absolutely. No one is blaming you. > I'm currently not able > to spend much time in a row that I expect to be needed. I really hope > (but only _hope_) that it might become better soon. If you would like > to speed this up you might perhaps try to prepare some packages and I > will verify / test / enhance them. That's why I CC'ed you on the server RPMs such that you might see how this *can* work and perhaps gain insights for the DEBs. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
