a zfs thank you :)
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:02:52 UTC
Hi, I was pleasantly surprised when I installed a new [1] zfs-on-root -current to rpi4 that when adduser was invoked, I was given the option to encrypt the homedir. This is a great feature for my context [2]. It doesn't automount on boot but I think this is more of a feature rather than a bug. One can have a different password to the GELI one used to boot up the whole system. I have not tested yet whether one can have the user, once logged in, mount their homedir with doas(1). Right now, I mount the homedir like so: zfs load-key -a (prompts for password) zfs mount -a as root. I could I guess make a doas line for the user for zfs load-key -r zfsfile/system. Can anyone suggest any better ideas please? [1] n271321-9ae91f59c500 [2] machine and disk are not in a "secure" area. My concern is for data-at-rest. homedirs will have things like cached passwords user creds etc and it's to prevent someone just walking off with the disk and grabbing user creds for example. --