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Other consequences of FileVault only encrypting $HOME
I use my mac laptop in a medical setting which requires the use of a mysql database containing sensitive medical information. Filevault only encrypts $HOME, and mysql by default stores data in /usr/local. The solution to this (and other security problems where software stores sensitive data outside $HOME) is to move the directory containing the actual data to somewhere inside $HOME and symlink back to where the software expects to find it. In my mysql example (and keep in mind this is specific to my exact version of mysql), this means: |
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