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From: "Dirk Heinrichs" <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:49:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001012249.22554.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y6khekwo.fsf@newsguy.com

Am Freitag 01 Januar 2010 19:32:07 schrieb Harry Putnam:

> I want to encrypt a directory heirarchy on a remote machine where I
> don't have root.  I can use either an openbsd, or gentoo remote.

Not having root access usually means no chance to mount something. That in 
turn means that you can only encrypt on a per file basis. The best tool for 
this would be GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).

HTH...

	Dirk



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-01 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-01 18:32 [gentoo-user] [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root? Harry Putnam
2010-01-01 21:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-03  4:12   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-01-03 10:30     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-03 14:39       ` felix
2010-01-05 22:09       ` Harry Putnam
2010-01-05 23:18         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-06 21:27           ` Harry Putnam
2010-01-06 22:36             ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-15  0:19               ` Harry Putnam
2010-01-15  9:11                 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-06 20:03         ` felix
2010-01-01 21:49 ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2010-01-01 22:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Johannes Kimmel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-01 21:57 Ming-Che Lee
2010-01-02  0:29 ` felix

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