On 2007-12-11 John C. Welch wrote:
> On 12/11/2007 12:37 PM, "Ed Pastore" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> TM does FileVault backups like it does as otherwise your TM disk
>>> would be a nice, unencrypted, history of all your data.
>>
>> I understand why it uses an encrypted image. What I don't get is why
>> it cannot read or write from/to that image when I am logged in. I can
>> access that image from the Finder... I would think TM could acquire
>> my privileges and access it as well.
>
> Without re-encrypting that data, the only thing "protecting" it are
> filesystem privileges, and those are trivial to bypass.
I suppose he's referring to /Users/.$USER/$USER.sparseimage.
Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
--
"Another option [for defragmentation] is to back up your important files,
erase the hard disk, then reinstall Mac OS X and your backed up files."
--http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
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