From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: password protect or encrypt part of the file system like file or directory Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:35:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4DE5CF97.6080406@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: unni krishnan Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:2017 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750853Ab1FAFfV (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 01:35:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > -- > Thank you, > Unni > http://www.mutexes.org/ > http://www.mutexes.org/imdb-movie-fetcher/ > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html