Re: Selective Compression/Encryption

Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe
2008-12-10T12:19:40Z

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Jeremy Sanders
<jeremy@jeremysanders.net> wrote:
> Miguel Figueiredo Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe wrote:
>
>> Things like compression or encription should be used at the "volume"
>> level. So.. if a user wants a specific set of files or dirs ..they should
>> create a mount-point/volume like:
>>
>> private_vol
>> bigarchives_vol
>
> Does a normal user have permissions to do this?
>
> I could easily see the case where a normal user has a set of very
> compressible files in a directory. They shouldn't have to get a sysadmin go
> to the trouble of setting this up.
>

that's a policy decision.
Distro's will probably allow a admin/wheel user to do such things.

Big deployments, shell servers, or university setups, will all have a
policy decision and usualy hack up costumised tools for managing users
quota, settings, passwds and things like that.

A costumised useradd would probably create such volumes for each user,
for instance, and a costumised passwd, would reencript stored data
with new passwd. (or something similar...)...
I know I did similar things when was a university sysadm, pam_useradd
and pam_mountd were heavily used and costumised.

Kind regards,

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Miguel Sousa Filipe