Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1306 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/02/12 08:22, John Andersen wrote:
> On 1/31/2012 1:02 PM, 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.
>
> Exactly.
>
> The whole thread is a tempest in a teapot of misunderstanding.

But not necessarily all attributable to 'misunderstanding', John.

I posted my message with two aims in mind: to warn others who, like 
myself, thought that the data in their encrypted /home is safe even when 
back-upped; and to learn why the data could be read when copied over.

So, the basis for my post was ignorance in the second instance and 
trying to warn others as the prime reason.

BC

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