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Re: FileVault on other than home directories on MacOS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Wed Sep 23 18:56:58 2009
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:27:50 -0500
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: <DC8A9A3A-2FB3-4BC3-B15A-D138F7F6CE9F@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
On Sep 21, 2009, at 3:57 PM, 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.
According to an Apple security person who spoke here about a year ago,
you can use the underlying CLI to do everything FileVault does, but at
some other point(s) in the directory tree than home directories.
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