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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> Unni
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2011-06-01 5:27 password protect or encrypt part of the file system like file or directory unni krishnan
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