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I don't understand... If you've got the requisite ecryptfs packages installed, you can just run something like: "adduser --encrypt-home newusername" and there

by ansible 10y ago

I don't understand... If you've got the requisite ecryptfs packages installed, you can just run something like: "adduser --encrypt-home newusername" and there you go. It works on top of any filesystem, because it encrypts on a per-file basis.

zeveb 10y ago
Yeah, but (last time I installed) that wasn't an option at install time.
- oarsinsync 10y ago
  Ubuntu has that as an install-time feature, but then Ubuntu is definitely not Debian. Then again, Debian isn't really either given the systemd fiasco that is Jessie. How has that whole debacle impacted you? I still have several squeeze(or whatever oldstable / jessie-1 is) boxes that I'm loathe to upgrade, and considering just biting the bullet and switching to either Ubuntu, which has a more mature systemd seutp, or some other distro entirely (OpenSUSE seems to be the place to be when it comes to bleeding edge secure rolling releases), but the familiarity I have for Debian continues to make that difficult to make the leap.
  - stakent 10y ago
    Can you write more about systemd fiasco in Jessie? I've very reluctantly upgraded to Jessie with systemd few months ago and, to my surprise, it simply works. Cursory googling returned entries from 1-2 years ago, so my google fu is not sufficient.
  - zeveb 10y ago
    Actually, I don't mind systemd anymore. I hate the philosophy and attitude of the maintainer, but I haven't had any operational problems using systemd. It works, and it works pretty well. I just hate that I had no choice.
- ansible 10y ago
  So then just don't create your main user account at install time. I'm usually creating an 'admin' user at that point anyway. The main thing to watch out for is to add new users appropriately to some system groups like sudo, cdrom, audio and such.
  - zeveb 10y ago
    > I'm usually creating an 'admin' user at that point anyway. Why create an admin user when root already exists?
    - ansible 10y ago
      It is handy, if you are setting up the system for someone else. You can always delete the user account you created at install time too, after you have set up the root account with a password.

by ansible 10y ago

zeveb 10y ago

Yeah, but (last time I installed) that wasn't an option at install time.

oarsinsync 10y ago
Ubuntu has that as an install-time feature, but then Ubuntu is definitely not Debian. Then again, Debian isn't really either given the systemd fiasco that is Jessie. How has that whole debacle impacted you? I still have several squeeze(or whatever oldstable / jessie-1 is) boxes that I'm loathe to upgrade, and considering just biting the bullet and switching to either Ubuntu, which has a more mature systemd seutp, or some other distro entirely (OpenSUSE seems to be the place to be when it comes to bleeding edge secure rolling releases), but the familiarity I have for Debian continues to make that difficult to make the leap.
- stakent 10y ago
  Can you write more about systemd fiasco in Jessie? I've very reluctantly upgraded to Jessie with systemd few months ago and, to my surprise, it simply works. Cursory googling returned entries from 1-2 years ago, so my google fu is not sufficient.
- zeveb 10y ago
  Actually, I don't mind systemd anymore. I hate the philosophy and attitude of the maintainer, but I haven't had any operational problems using systemd. It works, and it works pretty well. I just hate that I had no choice.
ansible 10y ago
So then just don't create your main user account at install time. I'm usually creating an 'admin' user at that point anyway. The main thing to watch out for is to add new users appropriately to some system groups like sudo, cdrom, audio and such.
- zeveb 10y ago
  > I'm usually creating an 'admin' user at that point anyway. Why create an admin user when root already exists?
  - ansible 10y ago
    It is handy, if you are setting up the system for someone else. You can always delete the user account you created at install time too, after you have set up the root account with a password.