https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EncryptedPrivateDirectory
Just thinking about this, haven’t been involved in it, but is there any kind of notification to users letting them know that their password to decrypt the folder would still be in /etc/shadow?
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#1 by Dave on September 25, 2008 - 4:50 pm
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Why would they need to know? Are you saying do they know the password will ‘change’ when they change their system password?
#2 by admin on September 25, 2008 - 4:55 pm
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No I am saying that if someone takes their hard drive, their private folder is not private, which some may think it is because of the label.
#3 by Gavin on September 26, 2008 - 5:44 am
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Aren’t shadow passwords encrypted? Or is it just a hash which could be easily broken once someone had got access to the drive?