[Samba] Encryption of shares

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Mon Nov 14 12:44:48 UTC 2022


Am 11.11.2022 um 15:08 schrieb Andrea Venturoli via samba:
> On 11/11/22 08:03, lists--- via samba wrote:
>> Good morning list,
> 
> Hello.
> 
>> does anybody uses a [homes], and maybe [profiles], encrytion?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Some users asked me yesterday if that could be done in any, for the 
>> users easy, way ..
> 
> This is transparent to users.
> 
>> The related system runs Debian Bullseye and samba version 
>> 4.15.7-Debian, and acts as an AD member-server - and several 
>> [homes]-folders are filled with lots of data.
> 
> I'm doing it in FreeBSD (either with ZFS encrypted datasets or GELI), so 
> my solutions won't apply to you.
> 
> This is really not a Samba question: it's the underlying OS that 
> provides encrypted filesystem; Samba doesn't even know.

Yes, I know its not a feature of samba itself ;)
But its a samba-ml, and so my thought was that there might be someone 
else where such a question raised, too ... and found a nice way to do it.

Doing a new installation is possible, but takes time and ressources.

>   bye
>      av.

Cheers,
Torsten



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