From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 22 15:48:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A4A16A492 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:48:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greenwood.andy@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3240F43D53 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:47:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from greenwood.andy@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so173313uge for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:48:21 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=K/Up4srhzoJVSPqQJnIuPMpgzPovs/HoDSyZWzTOI9QqFgiZtnRjk3syMDagGAycVS/IUvTEjHJHjN84MSWtKt2JdAkYovPsugglKe4GFk8kI1dqRfmM4viIc+eB6qy7agdf3BodiDrwjSLLZKHF/Y8Szb2LDuyyNs0u3HnLmco= Received: by 10.78.204.20 with SMTP id b20mr7927419hug.1164210500787; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:48:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.139.10 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:48:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3ee9ca710611220748n58ef394v2d7f78dcf59fc462@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:48:20 -0500 From: "Andy Greenwood" To: "Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T" In-Reply-To: <5aaed53f0611220645n7b16fa53x81232f44d5197013@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2cd0a0da0611211941iae07787q3f433fb2c8ab1f22@mail.gmail.com> <20061121225903.fswba3d1uss8wgos@secure.rem1tech.com> <5aaed53f0611212245v2f194531q569ab17a9bac1d6e@mail.gmail.com> <2cd0a0da0611220549i1fe5d6dekc51e0aa0eda13ec2@mail.gmail.com> <5aaed53f0611220645n7b16fa53x81232f44d5197013@mail.gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions , VeeJay Subject: Re: Password Security X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:48:26 -0000 I've used geli to encrypt my swap partition following the instructions in the handbook and it went quite well. If you really need to secure the data on the machine, mark the terminal as insecure and encrypt all the disks, including swap. Keep in mind though, that no system is completely secure. It may be secure enough, but there is *always* a way in for the determined individual. On 11/22/06, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T wrote: > Although I haven't used either, gbde and geli are possible methods. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- I'm nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream