On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:07:24AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 04:59:29PM +0200, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> >
> > > another benefit (not yet mentioned) is for filesystem encryption. I have /
and
> > > /home encrypted and /usr not encrypted (for better performance of my
laptop)
> >
> > I'm kind of curious about this. What's on / that benefits from being
> > encrypted? Logfiles, some stuff in /etc?
>
> Yes to both of those.
Well, I don't think people have suggested removing /var as a separate
mountpoint. The stuff in /etc is a much more interesting case. Do you
have some examples?
Password/Shadow files? SSL Certs/SSL Keys for various kinds of daemons
or clients.
RHN ssl certificates and auth keys?
-sv