If you are dual booting to windows w/ untrusted users during the day, you have a LOT worse potential security problems than someone looking over the contents of the cache.
-- Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216 > -----Original Message----- > From: KELEMEN Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Encryption in OpenAFS > > > * Ted Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20020221 09:14]: > > Ted, > > > This is interesting. Your users don't trust the client to > > protect the data? Or are you worried about the client's disks > > being exposed during service calls or sold after a hardware > > upgrade? > > The machines are working in two-phase shifts: during the day they > are public access student workstations at the university (running > whatever W*ndows version), during the night they are members of a > Linux cluster. Management is concerned about AFS cache contents > potentially exposed to unauthorized eyes during daytime (we have > international collaborators). Current workaround is scheduled > shutdown before daytime shift starts that includes cache-wiping. > > Peter > > -- > .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. > .+'' > Kelemen P�ter / \ / \ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > .+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
