I have a E250 Solaris 8 file server. I would like to encrypt a directory
in the users home directory where they may store sensitive information.
The users home directories are shared to Windows clients via Samba.
Ideally the users could drag/drop files to and from the encrypted
directory from their MS Wnidows clients after entering a password.
I have done some looking and haven't found a good solution. I'm guessing
someone out is doing something like or vary similar to this. If so would
you be willing to share your solution.

thanks in advance.

Bruce

In article <d99red$vqq$1@mailhub227.itcs.purdue.edu>,
Bruce Bresnahan <bruceb@purdue.edu> wrote:

> I have a E250 Solaris 8 file server. I would like to encrypt a directory
> in the users home directory where they may store sensitive information.
> The users home directories are shared to Windows clients via Samba.
> Ideally the users could drag/drop files to and from the encrypted
> directory from their MS Wnidows clients after entering a password.
> I have done some looking and haven't found a good solution. I'm guessing
> someone out is doing something like or vary similar to this. If so would
> you be willing to share your solution.
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> Bruce

Apple offers this in MacOS X for local users. Unless you implement some
sort of encrypted filesystem and give each user their own filesystem
with an authentication service to automatically lock/unlock it, I don't
see a way of duplicating this feature.

But then OpenSolaris is now available, so you can code to your heart's
desire.

Why do academic sites always come up with these blue-sky,
head-in-a-dark-place requests?

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Bruce Bresnahan wrote:
> I have a E250 Solaris 8 file server. I would like to encrypt a directory
> in the users home directory where they may store sensitive information.
> The users home directories are shared to Windows clients via Samba.
> Ideally the users could drag/drop files to and from the encrypted
> directory from their MS Wnidows clients after entering a password.
> I have done some looking and haven't found a good solution. I'm guessing
> someone out is doing something like or vary similar to this. If so would
> you be willing to share your solution.

Try something at the application level, not the filesystem level.
For example an encrypted zip file, with a zip application that lets
you drag and drop files, although it would probably be so slow
that users will not bother using it.