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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ecryptfs and ssh pubkey login - How automount and other stuff?
I have moved my ssh authorized_keys to an /etc/ssh/ subfolder, so I can login with pubkeys and have root in control of ssh access, but there are 2 problems left.
It does not automount my users ...
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How does ecrypt handles symlinks to unencrypted files?
I have a encrypted home directory, and I have some large files (VMs) that I store outside of my home directory in /opt/jrg-stuff/VMs.
How would ecryptfs handle a symlink to those files? Will it ...
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Disks constantly spinning no matter what I do (jbd2). I'm on the brink of insanity
My disks have been spinning for months. It started with Ubuntu 11.10, and continues with 12.04. I can't figure out how to stop it. I've looked at various folks suggestions online about ext4 commit ...
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Ubuntu, Gnome, PAM and ecryptfs
I would like to have a directory accessible to a couple of users, and not readable by maintenance types ... I can do what I want using ecryptfs and a password known only to the "couple of users" in ...
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Need to change strong passphrase for Private folder
I want to sync .Private on two computers through Ubuntu One. Problem is that the two computers have different strong passphrases for the Private folder. I have the passphrases recorded on paper. I ...
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Can I identify encrypted files resulting in dmesg errors, or fsck the encrypted files?
A few days ago, I accidentally ran out of space in my encrypted (ecryptfs) home folder after upgrading to oneiric (Tracker went nuts). I noticed because I couldn't write my files with vim anymore, and ...
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Mounting an encrypted partition (not home) at login
I have a partition for data that is encrypted. I've created it using Disk Utility, so I suppose it's using ecryptfs.
Since it is not home, it doesn't get automatically configured to be mounted at ...
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Switched to Debian 6, but still have home encrypted
I was thinking of going back to Debian, because of old times.
So I did a fresh install on my computer.
And tweaked my login-name as well
What id totaly forgot was that i have encryption
on my ...
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Encrypted home breaks on login
My home is encrypted, which breaks the login. Gnome and other services try to find all sorts of .files, write to them, read from them and so on. E.g. .ICEauthority. They are not found (yet) because at ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How can I mount my Dropbox folder as the Documents folder on my encrypted home folder after startup?
What I am trying to do is bind:
/home/username/Dropbox/Documents to /home/username/Documents on startup. On another computer running Ubuntu 12.04 I did this by placing the following line in ...
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How to recover bad encrypted directory
I had a problem while formatting Ubuntu.
I tried to reinstall without formatting the home directory and with the same username. The home directory of the new installation was set to be encrypted.
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Restore Encrypted /home partition
I need to recover my lost data.
Tonight I reinstalled ubuntu without formatting /home, thinking that ubuntu was enought smart to install itself without wiping the previous data in directory like ...
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How can I recover encrypted data from a previous Ubuntu installation?
I tried to upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 but it crashed. It couldn't mount disk drives so I did a new installation without erasing the previous drives. Now I can't access access-your-private-data.
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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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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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transparent home directory encryption
#1 I'm very new to the ubuntu home directory encryption or rather ecryptfs
folder encryption. I read about the same within Dustin's blog & tried
implementing it.
Problem or query is
my home ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 flush-encryptfs resource hog
I've been using Ubuntu 11.10 for a while, but recently upgraded to a fresh install of 12.04 LTS.
I am noticing a program called flush-encryptfs- using a significant portion (30 to 80%) cpu resources. ...
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Why is ecryptfs only mounting private home directory over ssh?
The title says it all; my 12.04 server box will only decrypt and mount my home directory if I log in over SSH. Last night I needed some data off my server but I had left my laptop with my private keys ...
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Some files not copied when moving an encrypted home to a different partition
I have "successfully" moved my encrypted home to a separate partition using the instructions here:
How can i move an encrypted home directory to another partition?
However, some files are not being ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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/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 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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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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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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Problem with encrypted home folder
I removed some packages with aptitude. While removing packages dpkg asked me if I wanted to remove cryptsetup; I said no. Now I am getting the following warning sometimes.
cryptsetup: WARNING: target ...
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.ICEauthority permission
I have an .ICEauthority permission issue where I cant get into my home directory.
If I upgrade from 11.04 to 12.04 would my home directory be saved and .ICEauthority allow me to get my home directory ...
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ecryptfs “Mounted eCryptfs” the files are visible but are still encrypted
Mounted eCryptfs
root@ubuntu:/home/myusername# ls
Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop
ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWY0WIu2Nk-Z3-QMDeqMc8nWQwvabTrHVmr80WS5OvwSTIBMRF9hA6LHnE--
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Retrieving encrypted files without passphrase but with user login? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Encrypted Home… Forgotten Password, but no Passphrase
I got a very critical issue today. My hard disk has a lot of strange errors (such as "drdy err") and Ubuntu ...
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Problem with auto ecryptfs
always when I boot my PC and login first time my home don't decrypt and I have files:
Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop ->
/usr/share/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-mount-private.desktop
README.txt ->
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