(More) Specifics:
- Undoing the protection should include filling in a password.
- The password should be different from the one used with
sudoor any other passwords that are used for acquiring elevated privileges.
All (possible) solutions and suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance!
Edit: Perhaps additional specifications:
- With 'displace‘, I mean anything involving that resembles the result of
mv,cp(move, cut, copy) or whatsoever. The files should remain in their previously assigned locations/places and should not be able to ‘pop up’ anywhere. - I require for the files to be unreadable.
- I don’t care if it’s modifiable or not.
- I don’t require this for my whole system! Only for a specific set of files.
You’re aware of file permissions, right?
So if you’re concerned about a specific set of files that you don’t want moved, AND they’re in a normal userspace location…
The thing with file permissions is that I or root are able to change that. I am looking for a method (if it exists) that somehow bypasses that.
Yeah, but you’d need to sudo in order to affect the files. So that’s a simpler way of doing what you’re suggesting.
I’ll straight up pose the question I asked someone else:
It seems I wasn’t clear as most people misunderstood me.
But, to give a very precise example; say
- I had a folder called
~/some/folder. - It was on an encrypted drive.
- And I had done additional work to encrypt the folder again.
- And say, I used
chattr,chmodorchownor similar utilities that remove access as long as one doesn’t have elevated privileges. - And say, I had done whatever (additional thing) mentioned in your comment.
Then, what prevents whosoever, to copy that file through cloning the complete disk?
Even if they’re not able to get past the password, it will be found on the cloned disk. SO, basically, I ask for some method that prevents the file to even be copied through a disk clone. I don’t care that it has three passwords protecting it. What I want is for the disk clone (or whatever sophisticated copy/mv/cut or whatsoever utility exists) to somehow fail while trying to attempt the action on the protected files.
