Mathias Gug wrote: >On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 05:07:59PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: >> >> I doubt I would choose this for my servers - I may add it on at a later >> time through a command or set of commands. >>
>I think that the work done by Dustin is excellent, useful and worth >advertising as much as possible. The process to set up encrypted >directories has been streamlined a lot thanks to his work. Yes; I completely understand this, and definitely believe that this feature is a real boon to the operating system and the community. I was merely pointing out that I doubt I would use this on any of the machines I administer, but actually thinking about your case - a file server, or shell access server with users having encrypted parts of their home directories, I may be tempted to set this up if I knew what exactly was going on, rather than to just answer a yes/no question. I haven't seen the technology working, so can't comment on the usability, but when faced with any question about encryption (like I was with the option to encrypt the LVM volume), my first thoughts are to how easy the encryption keys are to back up and restore should anything go wrong, and what extra steps may I need to take to get it working in a streamlined and safe way. I would probably hit no at the first couple of times of installation, then possibly look at it again later. However, I do like the idea of a tasksel option, because I can always run that again in the future, after doing the research, and this is where I believe it may be possible to win more people over. Thanks. Andrew. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
