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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: unni krishnan <list@mutexes.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: password protect or encrypt part of the file system like file or directory
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:35:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE5CF97.6080406@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=-5qpYSTmY2y2W2NyP2fg_aw_a7w@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/1/11 12:27 AM, unni krishnan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just want to know, if it is possible to protect a file or directory
> at file system level, so that nobody can access it without knowing the
> authentication credentials irrespective of the system it is mounted.

You can use ecryptfs to do this sort of thing.

-Eric

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01  5:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-01  5:27 password protect or encrypt part of the file system like file or directory unni krishnan
2011-06-01  5:35 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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