eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Ubuntu's encrypted home directory feature uses this technology.
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ecrytfs - purpose of Private.sig and Private.mnt?
I just switched to ecryptfs and like it in conjunction with incremental backups.
But, what I have not understood is what are Private.sig and Private.mnt files used fore. Why should they be kept ...
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Save data from Access-Your-Private-Data
I was trying to reinstall my Ubuntu without formating /home and after it I received
Access-Your-Private-Data and README.txt instead of my data
According to:
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How to retrive encryption passpharase?
When installing Ubuntu I chose to encrypt my home drive and after installation update information window came up:
Where I had to write down encryption passphrase. Well I closed it and it doesn't ...
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Why can I not deselect “encrypt my home folder”?
I tried to install Ubuntu 13.04, but didn't want to encrypt my home folder. The installer doesn't let me uncheck the option.
Why?
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Can't decrypt files - passphrase doesn't work
I have the exact same problem as this gentleman had here: Encrypted Home... Forgotten Password, but no Passphrase
, i had an old user with with encrypted /home folder and changed the password from ...
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How does my encrypted /home work, and how can I get it to work via cl on another linux distro?
I'm using an encrypted /home, but I have no idea how it works. I'm trying to install Arch Linux and use commandline tools like ecryptfs, but I can't figure out how to mount my ubuntu encrypted /home. ...
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Can't access encrypted home from other Ubuntu releases from 13.04
Today I installed Raring Ringtail (again), 13.04 (production release), clean in a fresh partition on an AMD X2 64-bit system. I have a parallel installation of 12.10 and another one of 12.04 on other ...
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Can't access encrypted home from other Ubuntu release from 13.04b2 [closed]
I installed Raring Ringtail, 13.04 beta 2, clean on an AMD X2 64-bit system. I have a parallel installation of 12.10 and another one of 12.04 on other partitions. All $HOME dirs are encrypted. From ...
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can't log in after password change (ecryptfs)
I am on Ubuntu 12.10 with one user using encrypted home.
A while back I have changed by user password and then forgot it.
I then made a backup of my files using Dustin's help to an external drive. I ...
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how do I remove the .ecryptfs folder that was created after deja-dup backup?
I have a very large .ecryptfs folder in my /home directory that is the size of my /username directory. I believe it was created after I ran a backup using gksu deja-dup-preferences.
Previous ...
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Mount on filesystem of type eCryptfs explicitly disallowed due to known incompatibilities
I get this error when I'm trying to do sudo mount -t ecryptfs folder1 folder2 in my home folder (encrypted by ubuntu)
I tried the same command but folders at /tmp, it worked as expected.
The error ...
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Is ecryptfs-setup-swap persistent?
I have what I think is a quick question: Is running ecryptfs-setup-swap on a system that didn't have home-directory or swap encryption enabled when it was installed persistent? The man page at ...
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ecryptfs-migrate-home -u user mount options
I've set up ecryptfs home directory with this command
ecryptfs-migrate-home -u username
Everything works like it should but I cannot find the ecryptfs mount options anywhere. There's nothing ...
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ecryptfs - About 200 Passwords to Parse Through
I know all but two characters of my password. I know, I'm an idiot for not writing down my pass immediately after my main board went south on me, but that's water under the bridge.
Anyway, I figure ...
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Disk Error Broke my LUKS encryption
My 1TB Seagate had some strange error which caused it to fail to mount. I ran the command:
fsck.ext4 -cDfty -C 0 /dev/sdb1
The hard drive then stopped making strange clicking noises. Unfortunately, ...
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Automount Encrypted Home partition on Boot
After update around 1 month ago my laptop did not mount encrypted home partition on login/boot (not sure when this happened before) - which results to unable to login.
Now I have to manually switch ...
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Move ecryptfs .Private directory to another partition
I don't like to keep my data in the same partition as my Home directory; so I configure my machine with a small home partition which contains a symlink to my large data partition.
For this reason, ...
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encrypted home directory not mounting after log off
I am having issue with my encrypted ecryptfs home directory after I log out and log back in.
The home directory won't auto mount and I tried to execute "ecryptfs-mount-private" manually and it does ...
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Dual Ubuntu Installations with Whole Disk Encryption
My goal is I want to have a Xubuntu/Ubuntu dual boot, with a catch - I want the disk to be fully encrypted with the dm-crypt (native supplied) whole disk encryption. Now I know, out of the box the ...
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What is the command to retrieve the pass phrase of an encrypted home directory?
I remember setting a password to encrypt my directory when I installed Ubuntu, and running a command to retrieve a pass phrase in case I lost the password. Can anyone tell me what is the terminal ...
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Home directory encryption
I've just encrypted my home directory after installing ubuntu (i.e. my home directory was initially not encrypted then I used the ecryptfs-utils to encrypt it).
I am curious to know whether only the ...
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Recover encrypted data after reinstall
I couldn't remember the password that I've used for so many weeks, and changed it in recovery mode but for many reasons I decided to reinstall Ubuntu 12.10 with my seperate /home folder intact and ...
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eCryptfs - Need to remove from drive
Okay, so I have a new server with ubuntu 12.04. I added the drive from my old and was trying to move data from the main drive and of course when I mounted it I ran into ...
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ecryptfs-mount-private not working
So i had this working before i did a clean install. Now i run this command on Ubuntu 12.04 and it does not encrypt my private folder.
I had this working for a while here to, but then it just stopped ...
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How to get encrypted home mounted automatically after crash?
Just few days after reinstalling ubuntu (see How to unencrypt encrypted home directory?) I found my pc showing weird error messages in console (something about read/write access). I rebooted it, ...
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How to unencrypt encrypted home directory?
I got hdd replaced in my noteboook and now trying to read encrypted home directory from old hdd under freshly installed ubuntu. I tried
mount -t ecryptfs /mnt/old_disk/USERNAME/.private/.Private ...
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How do I get and keep access to encrypted home dir on an external drive?
I have a clean new install of 12.04 on my internal drive. On my external drive I have everything that used to be on this drive. The file I'm concerned with right now is my old home folder from ...
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How to prevent ecryptfs from umounting home if tmux is still running?
I have a server, which i access over ssh. Sometimes i like to run some scripts (some of them in the background) in tmux and then detach it, close the connection and access tmux later.
But ...
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How do I mount an encrypted /home directory on another Ubuntu machine?
I've done something a bit, well, strange. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 directly onto a USB thumb stick, encrypting the /home directory as given the option during the install. The filesystem is btrfs, I ...
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ecryptfs assistance, have all keys am able to progress to decrypting the data but then aborts
Please help have been trying for over 3-4 days now with various methods.
I have created a folder named 'OldHome in my /tmp directory and also have all the encrypted data in a folder there. I deleted ...
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How do I require Two Factor Authentication to log in?
Running 12.04. I am trying to separate my wrapped-passphrase for my encrypted home folder to require a USB drive be present to login.
I followed the instructions here and added the drive to my ...
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does eCryptfs support multiple users?
I'm new to ecryptfs and I need some clarification on how it works.
Suppose there are two root users userA and userB, If I mount some folder under userA:
[userA@Dev] $ mount ecryptfs real img
now I can ...
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/dev/sda2 contains a filesystem with error after partitioning (updated)
I just wanted to create a separate home partition on my Ubuntu 12.10 system. I booted the liveDVD, resized the sda2 partition (28gb of data resized to 30gb based on MiB [originally on a 100gb ...
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ecryptfs problems after inapproriate shut down. unable to access my /home
Here is what happened to me a few days ago. I was watching a movie in bed and when I turned I accidently pulled the electric plug from my PC and it turned off inappropriately. When I turned it back ...
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Ecryptfs auto-mount after ssh login
ecryptfs-mount-private mounts the Private directory.
...but after I log out, that directory is unmounted.
Questions:
How to auto-mount the Private directory after ssh login automatically?
How to ...
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How to lock and encrypt folder and files
I installed cryptkeeper in my laptop and when I click on the icon, it is not opening up or responding.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit version. Please help me on how to use this software or tell me how ...
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ecryptfs-recover-private creating unreadable encrypted folders
After months of proper functioning has ecryptfs has become corrupted and rendered /home/ inaccessible.
when running (both via guest account and from live-CD):
root@ubuntu:/media/backup/home/me# ...
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12.10 login-screen loop error accessing ecryptfs home drive [closed]
I'm running 12.10 64 bit on a Dell E5410 Latitude.
Everything was working nicely until I tried to install Avast antivirus program. This froze my system and I proceeded to remove --purge the program.
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Security aspects of home dir encryption [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a security risk if a password can be reset easily?
Changing the login password will automatically make an encrypted home directory re-accessible, as PAM takes ...
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.bashrc not run when SSH-ing in as a user who has home dir encryption [duplicate]
If I SSH into an Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS server as a user with home dir encryption, I get a really plain shell (no default .bashrc run). If I log in via console (of course causing the home directory to be ...
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Encrypted home with Ecryptfs - How to store the key file if i missed it on first boot?
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 with encrypted Home-directory. When I first booted I was given the option to store a key file to some Flash-drive (USB) or anything and there was a hint how to do it later. I ...
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Crypted partition in clear, how crypt?
I've crypted my home partition like that:
root@mycomputer:# ecryptfs-migrate-home -u bux
After 1 hour ecryptfs done his work. fine.
To check it, i connect with root on TTY1 just after boot. I seen ...
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Full WUBI disk encryption [closed]
A soundcard problem occurred after moving some files in /home to the eCryptfs disk, sure I'd made a like to /home, it doesn't matter, but I still want to encrypt nearly all the Ubuntu system not only ...
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eCryptfs : How to keep the home mounted without being over ssh?
I have a daemon program who need to read in a file who is saved somewhere in my home folder.
But every time I close my ssh connection, this daemon can't read the file because it appear that eCryptfs ...
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Same home folders on 2 PC's using network
I have a server that is always running always connected to the network and I would like to install another computer that can sit in my study and either log in to this PC(not vnc) over the network or ...
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Does eCryptfs use more disk space?
I have encrypted my /home folder using ecryptfs. I've noticed that it uses as 1.5 times the disk space compared to when it was not encrypted. Is this problem caused by the eCryptfs and is there a way ...
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Error when running binary with root setuid under encrypted home directory
I'm using a VPN script for Juniper's Secure Access protocol form here, which executes a binary located under ~/.juniper_networks/network_connect/ncsvc with the following permissions:
-rws--s--x 1 ...
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Auto decrypt home with ecryptfs
when I login into my user I got erro with ecryptfs:
Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop ->
/usr/share/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-mount-private.desktop README.txt ->
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Is it possible to use the 'screen' command to work with files on an encrypted home directory?
So I have an encrypted home directory, set up during install on a server running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I attempted to use screen in order to run a script that accesses the data in my home directory after ...
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How can I confirm that I'm using ecryptfs?
Is there a simple way to tell if I'm using ecryptfs on my home directory? I tried running the ecryptfs-migrate-home script a while ago, and it failed part way through. I assumed that it went back to ...
