another aes-loopback question -- /tmp directory

Ian Petersen ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 3 03:00:48 UTC 2008


I've seen articles that suggest mounting /tmp as an encrypted
partition with a random password generated at each boot.  Software is
not supposed to rely on the contents of /tmp surviving a power cycle,
so starting with a clean slate each time you power on should be fine.

Ian

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