[ge-talk] Security services provided by OS

[Niklas Nisbeth]

> An encrypted directory, or even better, an encrypted volume which the 
> user
> mounts (with passwords/keys) can easily solve the problem.
> 
> Actually, the more I think of mountable image files, the more I 
> realise that
> it can be used for everything.  Why cant the entire user home 
> directory be a
> mountable image file.  When you transfer between 2 boxes (laptop and 
> main
> PC, new PC, etc), moving your data across is as simple as moving one 
> image
> file.  Likewise, the system directory is an image file, easily 
> updateable /
> replacable.  Hose your system - just restore the system image from a 
> backup
> image file.

That is forking brilliant... Doesn't that solve a lot of the issues of 
moving folders about, etc, which the previous multi-user hacks have 
had? just mount the image to /boot/home?