Comments on: Secure Adium IM Logs http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262 Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 09 May 2008 23:39:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: joel http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2753 joel Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:47:34 +0000 http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2753 Actually, both syntaxes are correct. In my post, I'm just explicitly giving the symbolic link a name, where your syntax is relying on the name of the parent folder in ~/Logs/Logs. So it is still placing the symbolic link in the "Default" directory, and not creating a "Logs" subdirectory first. Also, my post deals with just encrypting the "Logs" directory. If you want to encrypt the entire "Default" directory that contains your contact lists and signatures, you can do that too. But like you said, you'll need to create the symbolic link to point to the "Default" directory in "Users". Thanks for the comment! Maybe next time you can give us your real name? :-) Actually, both syntaxes are correct. In my post, I’m just explicitly giving the symbolic link a name, where your syntax is relying on the name of the parent folder in ~/Logs/Logs. So it is still placing the symbolic link in the “Default” directory, and not creating a “Logs” subdirectory first.

Also, my post deals with just encrypting the “Logs” directory. If you want to encrypt the entire “Default” directory that contains your contact lists and signatures, you can do that too. But like you said, you’ll need to create the symbolic link to point to the “Default” directory in “Users”.

Thanks for the comment! Maybe next time you can give us your real name? :-)

]]> By: hi http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2752 hi Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:35:12 +0000 http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2752 The ailas is a little wrong ln -s ~/Logs/Logs ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/Logs should be: ln -s ~/Logs/Logs ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/ Placing the alias in the ../Default/Logs dir makes it look like a subdirectory to Adium, which (strangely enough) it follows. However it then tries to read the directories containing the logs as if they were the log files themselves. Placing the alias in the ../Default directory corrects this behaviors by replacing the log directory with the link to the encrypted image. The ailas is a little wrong

ln -s ~/Logs/Logs ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/Logs

should be:

ln -s ~/Logs/Logs ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/

Placing the alias in the ../Default/Logs dir makes it look like a subdirectory to Adium, which (strangely enough) it follows. However it then tries to read the directories containing the logs as if they were the log files themselves. Placing the alias in the ../Default directory corrects this behaviors by replacing the log directory with the link to the encrypted image.

]]> By: Stef http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2749 Stef Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:56:49 +0000 http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2749 Joel: It did work. Now I just have to decipher from the article how to make the mounted encrypted sparseimage not viewable or mountable from the network. Cheers and thanks. Joel:

It did work. Now I just have to decipher from the article how to make the mounted encrypted sparseimage not viewable or mountable from the network.

Cheers and thanks.

]]> By: joel http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2738 joel Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:08:29 +0000 http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2738 Hi Stef, I don't see why that wouldn't be possible. The only thing is you'll need to create a symbolic link to the Adium 2.0 folder with the ln -s command I explain above. Usually, an alias created in the Finder doesn't due the trick, but creating a symbolic link should. Hopefully this works for you! Good luck! Hi Stef,

I don’t see why that wouldn’t be possible. The only thing is you’ll need to create a symbolic link to the Adium 2.0 folder with the ln -s command I explain above.

Usually, an alias created in the Finder doesn’t due the trick, but creating a symbolic link should.

Hopefully this works for you! Good luck!

]]> By: Stef http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2737 Stef Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:50:27 +0000 http://www.joelika.com/2007/12/16/262#comment-2737 Question: could you not use this method to secure the entire Adium 2.0 folder and everything in it, including contact lists etc.? This is what I'm trying to do.. I want to put Adium entirely inside an encrypted sparseimage that I mount. If I could place an "alias" in the typical location where Adium looks for its data, and have it point to the sparseimage, that would be a simple fix. But Adium does not work with aliased folders. Question: could you not use this method to secure the entire Adium 2.0 folder and everything in it, including contact lists etc.? This is what I’m trying to do.. I want to put Adium entirely inside an encrypted sparseimage that I mount. If I could place an “alias” in the typical location where Adium looks for its data, and have it point to the sparseimage, that would be a simple fix. But Adium does not work with aliased folders.

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