| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Sam Halliday <sam(dot)halliday(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields |
| Date: | 2009-04-27 09:34:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20090427093429.GC4676@svana.org |
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:28:45AM -0700, Sam Halliday wrote:
> Tomas Zerolo wrote:
> >
> >> If there were a way to prompt the user for the password to an encrypted
> >> drive on startup for all OS, with an equivalent for headless machines...
>
> There is a difference between "it's possible" and "there is". I know of no
> such standard support of either of the standard OSes.
For the record, in Debian Linux you can setup an encrypted root FS
during installation and it will ask to a password on every boot.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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