On 01/02/12 08:02, Hans Witvliet wrote:
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.....
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Thanks for this. As I stated, I didn't know how the encryption worked because I have never bothered with it. But I have learnt a lot from all the comments made in this thread and I have been "heducated" somewhat on this subject :-) . I shall now go away and have a look at how to encrypt my external HDD. BC -- "If I were a rich man, yubbydibbydibbydibbydibbydibbydibbydum. All day long I’d biddybiddybum, if I were a wealthy man. Which probably explains why I’m not." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org