Dean Messing writes: : Peter Connolly wrote: : : eCryptFS. Nice article in Linux Journal: : : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9400. : : Thanks to all those who responded with help. : : As I read the above (very interesting!) article, : I checked on my FC6 laptop (running the : 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 kernel) to see if encrptyfs was : there. : : A `locate -i encryptfs' turns up nothing, as does : `yum info '*encrpytfs*'. Is this stuff absent : from FC6? (Tell me it ain't so. I have no time : to install F7 right now.) The article said that : encryptfs was available in the kernel as of : 2.6.19. : : Clues? : : Dean The clue is that you can't read, you nincompoop. (This is me writing to ME, in case you are reaching for your flamethrower. :-) The string, "encryptfs", in the commands above should have been "ecryptfs", which is in the kernel. Dean