[plug] encrypting drives on a samba server and backups

[Lucas van staden]

Hi,

This could be of use to you.
Have not used this myself, but been aware of it, keeping it to potentially
use in the future.

Using pam_mount to auto mount filesystems:

http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/opensource/0,39044899,62049948,00.htm

It can mount encrypted filesystems, making use of login entered password.
If this can be configured to get the password from the samba share request,
it can be very handy - partition can stay encrypted, unmounted, until it is
required.


-Lucas




On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Ari <sothisistheinternet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Okay, I need some guidance here. I've helped a mate get started with linux
> and he's happy using a FC11 install as a samba server (he wanted a copy of
> what I had, but with more hard drives for backing up his video editting,
> documents, etc etc). All is well with that, but after a recent theft he's
> worried about his files being accessed if the server or the backup drives
> are stolen. I'm not really sure where to start for encrypting things but
> still having them available to all his windows PCs. He has 3TB of storage
> drives (the FC11 install is on a separate small 40GB drive) with the entire
> drives shared via samba. I've got him using rsync for his backups to his
> external usb drives. Is it possible to encrypt the samba shared drives and
> still have samba be able to use them? What about the backups with rsync? I'm
> reluctant to admit I've never worked with encryption on linux drives before,
> and I know I really really should have as it's the sort of security measure
> that I should know about. Help please :-(
>
> TIA,
>
> Ari
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