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Re: encrypting the users' folders



Lee Braiden wrote:
> root needs to be responsible, trustworthy, and trusted.  Since root can do 
> virtually anything, it makes no sense to *try* to hide things from him/her.  
> The best you can do is to obscure things, so that root won't accidentally 
> find them out without trying to.  If you don't trust root, your security is 
> *gone*, anyway.

    The alternative is much worse.  I learned that on NT when I accidentally
droped admin privledges from all accounts.  :/

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