After months of proper functioning ecryptfs
has become corrupted and rendered /home/
inaccessible. When running (both via guest account and from live-CD):
root@ubuntu:/media/backup/home/me# ecryptfs-mount-private
ERROR: Encrypted private directory is not setup properly`
I then tried:
root@ubuntu:/media/backup/home/me# ecryptfs-recover-private
INFO: Searching for encrypted private directories (this might take a while)...
INFO: Found [/media/backup/home/.ecryptfs/me/.Private].
Try to recover this directory? [Y/n]: Y
INFO: Found your wrapped-passphrase
Do you know your LOGIN passphrase? [Y/n] n
INFO: To recover this directory, you MUST have your original MOUNT passphrase.
INFO: When you first setup your encrypted private directory, you were told to record
INFO: your MOUNT passphrase.
INFO: It should be 32 characters long, consisting of [0-9] and [a-f].
Enter your MOUNT passphrase:
INFO: Success! Private data mounted read-only at [/tmp/ecryptfs.uDWfDMCO].
root@ubuntu:/media/backup/home/me# ls /tmp/ecryptfs.uDWfDMCO/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.F
Display all 124 possibilities? (y or n)'
This created 124 encrypted folders which apparently hold my /home/
data. I just don't know how to access this data. Moreover, looking at /var/log/syslog/
there are a lot of the following errors:
Dec 3 11:19:22 ubuntu kernel: [ 1627.918209]
ecryptfs_parse_tag_70_packet: Error attempting to find auth tok for fnek sig [1b62c525049b45e0]; rc = [-2]
Dec 3 11:19:22 ubuntu kernel: [ 1627.918214]
ecryptfs_decode_and_decrypt_filename: Could not parse tag 70 packet from filename; copying through filename as-is`
I would really like to either get ecryptfs
working again properly or to at least recover my data.