ecryptfs?

[ChuangTzu]

Hello,

I am new to Mageia, actually considering moving from openSUSE 13.2

Every GNU/Linux distro I have used, and it has been many, all had ecryptfs-utils for creating a "private" folder rather than encrypting the entire drive or even the entire /home folder. I could not find it in the software database, and no luck searching for it on the forum either.

Does Mageia not offer it or support it?

Regards!

[doktor5000]

No, we do not have that packaged yet. There is a package request for it: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4171
Although you could use encfs as an alternative.

[ChuangTzu]

OK. Thank you for the prompt update.

Do you know how encfs compares to ecryptfs? Are they compatible, or would I need to recreate the encrypted folder the new program?

As a separate question: What are some reasons you might suggest someone use Mageia instead of openSUSE for example? Any plans for an LTS version, openSUSE is planning on shifting to a 3-5 year update schedule...they are going through some major changes just announced, and will start to show up in 13.3. or 13.4...

Is Mageia stable enough to use on office computers for general pc usage?

Also, interested in supporting a nice, newer growing distro with strong community support.... Was a long time Debian user....as well as others from an extensive distrohopping tour.

[doktor5000]

Do you know how encfs compares to ecryptfs? Are they compatible, or would I need to recreate the encrypted folder the new program?

No they are not compatible. For comparisons some results show up among the first search results:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/En ... o_eCryptFS
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EC ... ficiencies
https://defuse.ca/audits/ecryptfs.htm
https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm

As a separate question: What are some reasons you might suggest someone use Mageia instead of openSUSE for example? Any plans for an LTS version, openSUSE is planning on shifting to a 3-5 year update schedule...they are going through some major changes just announced, and will start to show up in 13.3. or 13.4...

I will not suggest something like that. Try Mageia and use it if you like it.
There had been plans for an LTS version, problem is there are simply not enough contributors for the additionally required ressources for the AQ team, packager team, bugsquad team and so on.

Is Mageia stable enough to use on office computers for general pc usage?

Definitely.

[ChuangTzu]

Hi Doktor.

I wanted to let you know that I just installed Mageia 4.1 with RazorQT, goal is to set it up as a lightweight KDE.

An intitial thought, it seems much faster/snappier than openSUSE with Xfce, however, it seems to use almost as much mem. as KDE, even with Razor using openbox as the WM. It does use much less CPU as well, so perhaps it is cacheing memory for performance and to use less CPU?

I might upgrade via 5.0 RC, and use LXQT, wanted to play with the stable version first though.

Question, is MSEC similar to apparmor or SELinux/Tomoyo etc...?

Looks like I will call Mageia home.

[doktor5000]

Measuring memory usage is not that easy, and I'd not only look at the numbers but how it feels to you, as you did already.

For msec, it is a framework to configure security preset and custom policies, and also check if they are still set and it does quite some more, like check for world writable files, open ports and such.
SELinux, Tomoyo and AppArmor are pretty different things - they are the core parts of an access control framework usually working in the lower layers in kernel. They are not an enduser application by themselves.

You might want to look at http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/4/en/content/msecgui.html to see what it can do.

[ChuangTzu]

Excellent info. thank you very much!