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Idea #22410: /home/username/Public is not relevant when the user chose to encrypt her folder

Written by vexorian the 12 Nov 09 at 02:00. Related project: Live CD. Status: New
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So, there is a Public subfolder in users' home folders. But this conflicts with the other idea to allow users to have their homes encrypted, making it not work out of the box as intended.
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Solution #1: Revamp the way the Public folder works
Written by vexorian the 12 Nov 09 at 02:00.
1. Create a shared subfolder in /home (/home/shared )
2. Each user will have a subfolder with his name in this subfolder.
3. /home/username/Public will be a symlink to /home/shared/username
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Solution #2: Do not create a Public folder when the /home/username folder is encrypted
Written by vexorian the 12 Nov 09 at 02:01.
In any case, if nothing else is done in regards to this issue, it is a good idea to make the user creator stop creating the Public folder when the partition is encrypted to stop confusion.
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Solution #3: Solution #1 with a link to the shared folder in Nautilus
Written by Beach Ball the 15 Nov 09 at 23:23.
I agree with Solution #1 and think there should be a link to the /home/shared folder in the Nautilus browser tree. There wouldn't be a link in the tree to each individual shared folder, just to /home/shared. Also, I would set the permissions on the users' shared folders to 733.

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andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 12 Nov 09 at 06:08
Kinda seems like common sense to me....

Darwin Survivor (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 12 Nov 09 at 06:51
The public folder should still be accessible if the target user is logged in. It requires 2 simultaneous logins, but it should still work.

Shady3D wrote on the 12 Nov 09 at 07:10
@Darwin Survivor totally agree

Lachu wrote on the 12 Nov 09 at 07:13
Public was introduced to storing web pages, which can be displayed by Apache.

ebnf wrote on the 14 Nov 09 at 01:13
Having public data shared from the encrypted area also provides an attack vector for known-plaintext attacks and, if writable, chosen-plaintext attacks.

Though anyone concerned about that probably wouldn't be using Ubuntu anyway.


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