On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:33:20PM +1100, Trent Murray wrote: > Hi, and thanks to everyone that responded to my question regardin encrypted > filesystems. Some of you asked "What are you encrypting" the answer is > backup data on a remote backup server and I am wanting to ensure that it is > safe from prying eyes considering there will be multiple backups from > various companies sitting on the same filesystem. > > Thanks again -
Why not encrypt it first and then cp it over ? > > Trent > > > On 04/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Send slug mailing list submissions to > > [email protected] > > > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >You can reach the person managing the list at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > >than "Re: Contents of slug digest..." > > > >Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: Fedora Core repositories (Howard Lowndes) > > 2. drilling down on disk io stats (Daniel B.) > > 3. Encrypted Filesystem (Trent Murray) > > 4. Re: drilling down on disk io stats (David Kempe) > > 5. Re: Encrypted Filesystem (David Kempe) > > 6. Re: Encrypted Filesystem (Howard Lowndes) > > 7. Re: odd eth1/ipw2200 problem (Daniel) > > 8. Re: Ubuntu / Windows networking (Rosemary MacPherson) > > > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: > >Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:38:07 +1100 > >Subject: Re: [SLUG] Fedora Core repositories > > > > > >Howard Lowndes wrote: > >> > >> > >> Del wrote: > >>> Howard Lowndes wrote: > >>>> I am having occasional lockups downloading the FC repositories using: > >>>> > >>>> /usr/bin/lftp -c mirror --verbose=3 --continue --delete-first > >>>> --exclude-glob *-debuginfo-* --exclude-glob debug/ --exclude-glob > >>>> headers/ --exclude-glob repodata/ --exclude-glob *.html > >>>> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/ > >>>> /mnt/repo/fedora_core/6/extras > >>>> > >>>> Is anyone else having similar probs? > >>> > >>> Yes, I am, and I'm assuming it's AARNet. I have switched to > >>> downloading from the mirror at pacific.net.au, it's much faster > >>> and doesn't die on me continually. > >> > >> Yes, I have switched to the fedoraproject.org repo and, though not > >> fast, at least it works. > > > >I think some of these mirrors must be badly screwed. I switched to the > >Pacific mirror to try it and pulled the "updates" with no problem, but > >the "extras" froze, consistently on the same file, the first one to be > >downloaded. > > > >> > >> > >>> > >> > > > >-- > >Howard. > >LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> > >When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; > >When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. > >-- > >Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. > > > > > > > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [email protected] > >Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:19:26 +1100 > >Subject: [SLUG] drilling down on disk io stats > >Hi all, > >How do I work out which processes are writing/reading to my disk - say, > >the > >last hour or so, maybe the top 10 in terms of frequency and volume. I'm > >looking at sar, iostat, lsof for instance. On my system monitor I have > >regular, periodic spikes on my disk that seem bigger than normal. How do > >I > >investigate this sort of thing? Also interested in any recommendations on > >reading material for performance tuning and monitoring (security) of > >linux-like systems if anyone cares to recommend them. > > > >Thanks, > >Daniel > > > > > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: "Trent Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [email protected] > >Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 18:06:56 +1100 > >Subject: [SLUG] Encrypted Filesystem > >Hi all, > > > >Can anyone recommend an encrypted filesystem technology under linux? > > > >the only one I have heard of is FUSE...does anyone have experience and/or > >knowledge of other encrypted filesystem technologies that they would > >recommend? > > > >-- > >Regards, > > > > > > > >Trent Murray > >(diazepam) > > > > > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: David Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:52:37 +1100 > >Subject: Re: [SLUG] drilling down on disk io stats > >Not sure about drilling down, there might be a plugin for it, but dstat > >was really useful for me recently in troubleshooting this type of problem. > >http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ > >yeah it looks like dstat_app plugin might do what you want... > > > >dave > > > >Daniel B. wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> How do I work out which processes are writing/reading to my disk - > >> say, the > >> last hour or so, maybe the top 10 in terms of frequency and volume. I'm > >> looking at sar, iostat, lsof for instance. On my system monitor I have > >> regular, periodic spikes on my disk that seem bigger than normal. How > >> do I > >> investigate this sort of thing? Also interested in any > >> recommendations on > >> reading material for performance tuning and monitoring (security) of > >> linux-like systems if anyone cares to recommend them. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Daniel > > > > > > > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: David Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Trent Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:55:58 +1100 > >Subject: Re: [SLUG] Encrypted Filesystem > >I would steer clear of them still. The FUSE ones have the best chance of > >support going forward, I suppose though if you really want one. > >Truecrypt on loopback is a better option imho... > >http://www.truecrypt.org/ > > > >at least its going to survive future kernel changes and is cross platform > > > >dave > > > >Trent Murray wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Can anyone recommend an encrypted filesystem technology under linux? > >> > >> the only one I have heard of is FUSE...does anyone have experience > >and/or > >> knowledge of other encrypted filesystem technologies that they would > >> recommend? > >> > > > > > > > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: > >Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:01:07 +1100 > >Subject: Re: [SLUG] Encrypted Filesystem > >It depends what you want to encrypt. > > > >On my laptop I use encfs and have a target folder in Desktop into which > >I can mount the encrypted directory, which is a .filename structure. I > >can optionally mount it with a timeout so that if I leave my lappy for a > >while then the visible directory will be unmounted. Even root cannot > >see the encrypted filesystem, only the owning user can do so. It suits > >my needs, but if you want something with a broader scope then you might > >need to look at dm-crypt or something similar. > > > > > >Trent Murray wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Can anyone recommend an encrypted filesystem technology under linux? > >> > >> the only one I have heard of is FUSE...does anyone have experience > >and/or > >> knowledge of other encrypted filesystem technologies that they would > >> recommend? > >> > > > >-- > >Howard. > >LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> > >When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; > >When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. > >-- > >Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. > > > > > > > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Del" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:35:23 -0000 > >Subject: [SLUG] Re: odd eth1/ipw2200 problem > > > > > >On Mar 3, 12:34 am, Del <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a Toshiba laptop with an ipw2200 wireless device. It currently > >> runs Fedora Core 6 but I've tried a few other distros on it (mostly > >booting > >> from a small set of /boot partitions I keep at the back of the disk, and > >> mounting most of the rest of their stuff from an attached USB disk, but > >> I wouldn't think that'd cause the problem). > >> > >> Quite frequently, I'd say about 25% of the time, when it boots it comes > >up > >> with a message during network initialisation saying "ipw2200 device eth1 > >> not found, skipping initialisation" or whatever the distro's words to > >that > >> effect are. When I run "ipconfig -a" or look in /dev I found that the > >ipw2200 > >> device that is normally /dev/eth1 has in fact set itself up as > >/dev/__tmp22993 > >> or something equally stupid. Rebooting usually makes the problem go > >away, > > > >In lieu of more appropriate and expert advice from someone else on > >list, I could offer some suggestions though they may not address your > >hardware/dev issue. > >What do you get when you run iwconfig ? > >Also, what's in /proc/net/wireless? > >What's in your /etc/modprobe.d/ipwXXXX file? > >You could kill ipwXXXX and ipwXXXXd the regulatory daemon - just as an > >experiment, then try to start them up again and look for errors. > >Maybe they start up more reliably after the boot - I have no idea. > > > >On my working system: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:init.d$ ps -ef | grep -i ipw > >root 3118 11 0 15:33 ? 00:00:00 [ipw3945/0] > >root 3119 11 0 15:33 ? 00:00:00 [ipw3945/1] > >root 3120 11 0 15:33 ? 00:00:00 [ipw3945/0] > >root 3121 11 0 15:33 ? 00:00:00 [ipw3945/1] > >root 3295 1 0 15:33 ? 00:00:19 /sbin/ > >ipw3945d-2.6.17-11-generic --quiet > > > >As an experiment, I removed the ipw3945 module using rmmod (maybe > >modprob -r is more appropriate) and killed off the daemon using the -- > >kill option to the above /sbin program. > > > >I don't get eth1 showing up at all in ifconfig or iwconfig until I > >'modprobe ipw3945' which brings back the above [ipw3945/x] processes. > >It also starts the ipw3945d daemon. > > > >I then invoke wpa_supplicant and configure it for eth1: > >wpa_supplicant -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext > >-w -B > > > >(You may have to ifconfig your eth1 interface and set up your routing > >tables again to get connected) > > > >HTH - in some tangential way, perhaps :) > > > >Daniel > > > > > > > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: "Rosemary MacPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:07:17 +1100 > >Subject: Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu / Windows networking > >James sent > > > >I'm not exactly sure what you are asking <sorry> but if you want to see > >network the neighborhood on your ubuntu box and have samba up-n-running > >and > >suitable shares mapped then > > > >you must provide a login passwd, typically > > > >smbpasswd -a me-or-other > >secret > >secret > > > >Also choose the same workgroup for all systems eg WORKGROUP, MSHOME TUX > >etc > >Then when you access network->all networks->WORKGROUP as me-or-other and > >secret you have access. > > > >You may also specify public shares and have no login requirements typical > >eg /tmp > > > >swat makes this easy for a newby, but don't bother its too hard to make it > >work on ubuntu! > > > >James > >-- > > > > > >Hi all, > > > >Sorry I did not make myself clear. > > > >I have several Win98 PCs on a LAN. > > > >One is dual-boot running Ubuntu 6.06 as well as Win98. > > > >In Ubuntu I can see and access (read/write/execute) all files on all PCs > >including th Win98 partitions on the Ubuntu PC. (that is I can see and > >access the whole LAN) > > > >All the PCs on the LAN, including the Ubumtu OS, are defined in a > >workgroup > >called WORKGROUP > > > >On the other PCs (running only Win98) I can see the PC running Ubuntu (it > >shows up in Network Neighbourhood)but if I try to access the Ubuntu PC > >from > >one of the Win98 PCs I get a message on the Win98 PC saying > >" requires password to "resource \\MAC2\IPC$" " > > > >Any further advice? > > > >Mac from the Mountains > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--===============2017107585022785802==-- > >-- > >SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > >Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > > > Trent Murray > IT Consultant > Guardian Technology Group > > T: 0419 39 99 78 > F: 02 9543 7654 > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> received direct to mobile phone > M: P.O Box 3269 Bangor N.S.W 2234 > > Member of Linux Australia > Registered Microsoft Business Partner > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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