Re: privacy on Unix-servers

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 01/22/03


From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:54:58 GMT

In article <3E2E3968.B6BA96F3@mega-nerd.com>,
Erik de Castro Lopo <nospam@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
>Now, the root user can see everything on the machine. There
>is no reliable way of hiding things from a determined root
>user.

But encryption will usually be sufficient against all but the most
determined sysadmins.

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