On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 05:22:48 +1200, chris wrote: >>+1 The devs have lost there way. > > Who are the devs? The Xubuntu team? Debian devs? Xfce upstream? > A quick Google search reveals that ecryptfs.org is currently maintained by two Canonical engineers.
If the problem with it as reported for 18.04 is that it is buggy, the people to refer this to would be there. I expect they already know about this and most likely are already working on it (or have decided to drop it - either way, it's their baby; anyone want to take it over?). Frankly, for my purposes, if it is buggy (and low quality encryption) I would want to use something better, even if it is partition-focused. That said, I'm still on 16.04 on three machines, not the VM at work (beta release of 18.04), and I'll need to backup my files unencrypted to use 18.04 without ecryptfs. Tar-gz and zip files are good for those sorts of things. I also don't care for the lengthy delay in doing things like listing a directory or opening a document because of the decryption delay - usually upwards of about 30s, and I have a pretty fast machine (for almost everything else). On my laptop I could create an encrypted partition for my $HOME directory without too much trouble. I already have to create special hoops to get around encrypting only the directories I don't want to share (e.g., my documents, personal settings, etc.) while allowing my music, downloads, videos, audios and other trivia to be available to my other users - I do have a few. Every advance has its issues. So far what I've seen on 18.04 on my work VM is better more than not. The biggest issue I ran into was not being able to copy my xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts file into my .config location and have it work - I had to recreate them by hand. The second biggest was having to change my windows theme to one where the labels would appear vertical on my vertical panel. Neither was a significant deterrent. Just my $0.02... YMMV MR -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
