Timeline for How can I hide/encrypt my files from another user using the same server
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| Feb 14, 2021 at 21:50 | answer | added | Jane | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 21:47 | comment | added | Philip Couling | Weird that so many people commented here by nobody bothered to mention chmod. It's better to offer help and explain its limitations than simply asking fore more context and offering nothing. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 21:36 | answer | added | Philip Couling | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 20:56 | comment | added | cryptarch | Something to keep in mind is that sysadmin vs user is kind of an executor/trustee vs beneficiary kind of relationship. I.e. the computer hardware your system is running on is owned by your institution, not the sysadmins; the sysadmins are hired by the institution to ensure the needs of the users are met. Sysadmins take this relationship seriously. The power they have over the system is only available to them because they have certain responsibilities to uphold. If it were found out that some sysadmin was going around spying on user files arbitrarily, it would be a big scandal. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 20:45 | comment | added | cryptarch | If it's not your machine and someone else is the admin, then all bets are off for a regular user. As Kusalananda said, you either trust the admins, or you don't. NB: no admins I've seen would ever go poking around in some user's files without a reason. And even if they accidentally saw something personal while going about some admin task, they would respect your privacy and not talk about it or exploit it. Of course, they need to report anything illegal, and they'll ban-hammer your ass if you're doing anything to exploit or compromise the system. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 19:50 | comment | added | Kusalananda♦ | I think we need a bit more context to be able to say very much more. What is your intended use of this system, what sort of data do you need to store on it, and why do you think you need to store important passwords on that system and not on a safe private machine? You mention "institution", is that a university? If so, you should probably not store personal data on that system in any case (only things related to your studies or your employment). | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 19:13 | comment | added | hanugm | @Kusalananda But, it is mandatory to store. Else I cannot access internet. I need to store passwords for internet access... | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 19:06 | comment | added | Kusalananda♦ | If you don't trust the system administrators, I would consider that system as "tainted" and not store anything on it, nor use it for anything. In particular I would never enter a password or any sensitive information while logged into it. In short, if you don't trust your admin, then the system is more or less useless to you. You could use it to store encrypted data, but de- and encryption should happen elsewhere. Even on a home system, you would probably want to avoid storing passwords in plain sight in text files. Use something like password-store, depending on what passwords these are. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 19:02 | comment | added | hanugm | And I need to keep so many passwords also in different rc files..... | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 19:01 | comment | added | hanugm | @Kusalananda I don't trust. | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 19:00 | comment | added | hanugm | @Kusalananda drwxr-xr-x 7 .... | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 18:54 | comment | added | Kusalananda♦ | What is the permission on your home directory. What's the output of ls -ld "$HOME"? Do you trust the system administrator? | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 18:51 | history | asked | hanugm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |