On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 11:44 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
When I installed 12.1 I encrypted (for the first time) my HOME directory.
Last night, in anticipation of installing KDE 4.8,
I did a backup of my /home to an external HDD.
This is where you went wrong... If you make a backup to (lets say) /backup that might be located on an external device, you should have taken care that the filesystem that lies underneath /backup is _also_ encrypted. So when mounting /home/user_abc you should be prompted for a password. And when mounting /backup (before backup_or_restore) you should also be promted for [different] password-or-PIN. btw, there are harddrives that do entire drive encrption in their drive-bios, but i should not trust their strength..... hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org