Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

> In addition to using chmod as suggested by others, for securing
> your files, why not try using encfs on directories that you *really* want
> to protect from prying eyes? The added bonus is even root cannot see
> those files and booting off a cd also will not let others look at
> your files.
>

Thanks for the idea. I do not need that level of security, I just want
to open another account on this machine so that my neighbour can send
me pics of our daughters' joint birthday party over wifi! I like
having the security that if some component of this machine breaks, I
can mount the drive anywhere and recover the data.

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