On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00:06 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
Other alternatives:
a. At least on ext4, you can today selectively encrypt directories and
files, so you could have an non-encrypted ~/ by default, and choose
what directories to encrypt. There's no GUI assistance for this yet
that I'm aware of.
b. If you can clearly compartmentalize our use cases, you can have two
accounts, one is encrypted and other not.
I think the later two put a lot of burden on the user to figure out
and manage. I'm not sure there's a way for GNOME or systemd-homed to
directly support such use cases, but I also don't expect it would
stand in the way of user implementation of such a scheme.
"Alternative" B is a complete cop-out. It's essentially ignoring the fault
entirely, and blaming the using for wanting to do something the traditional
way.
That is a workaround, not a solution.
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John M. Harris, Jr.
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