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innocentbeats
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 Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 4:07 pm Post subject: Samba and File Encryption |
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Hello,
I want to set up a samba server where windows users can store their files. Is there a possibility to encrypt the stored files on the server that they get decrypted with the username and password from the user?
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Crg
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: Samba and File Encryption |
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| innocentbeats wrote: | Hello,
I want to set up a samba server where windows users can store their files. Is there a possibility to encrypt the stored files on the server that they get decrypted with the username and password from the user?
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The files/data will travel over the network unencrypted (unless you are using samba with stunnel or something).
Doesn't seem to be much point in encrypting them on the disk the way you seem to be suggesting, if you have the correct permissions setup.
Unless of course you don't want root be able to read them, but then one would assume someone with root access has enough skills to be able to get the windows users passwords anyway.
Also if it's encrypted with username/password of the user how would you go about having them change their passwords? Decrypt the files with the old password and then encrypt them all again with the new one?
Seems a lot of effort for what is an inherently insecure system anyway (windows, windows users, windows filesharing, etc...) |
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innocentbeats
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| Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, you are right in these point. The most importan thing would be that if someone steels the harddisk, that the data on it is unreadable... So I want to have just a "simple" encryption on in, although the traffic is not encrypted.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| innocentbeats wrote: | Yes, you are right in these point. The most importan thing would be that if someone steels the harddisk, that the data on it is unreadable... So I want to have just a "simple" encryption on in, although the traffic is not encrypted.
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Ah right, in that case someone has written a howto for gentoo that you might find useful here ->
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31363  |
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innocentbeats
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but I think this how to deals with a completly encrypted system. It tried that once out, and the result was, that my system was so secure that even I could not access it any more 
So I need something, that encrypts just one partition or directory...
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