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Re: FileVault on other than home directories on MacOS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Tue Sep 22 08:48:02 2009
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:29:18 -0400
From: Adam Fields <cryptography23094893@aquick.org>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <DC8A9A3A-2FB3-4BC3-B15A-D138F7F6CE9F@cs.columbia.edu>
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:57:56PM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> Is there any way to use FileVault on MacOS except on home
> directories? I don't much want to use it on my home directory; it
> doesn't play well with Time Machine (remember that availability is
> also a security property); besides, different directories of mine have
> different sensitivity levels.
>
> I suppose I could install TrueCrypt (other suggestions or comments on
> TrueVault?), but I prefer to minimize the amount of extra software I
> have to maintain.
You can just create a regular encrypted disk image using Disk Utility
(and set it to auto-mount using Finder if you want).
- Adam
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