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Encrypted Home… Forgotten Password, but no Passphrase

I encrypted my Home to protect against hackers of course when I first installed Ubuntu. It loaded up the Terminal and was attempting to show me my encryption password incase it ever needed to be used. So I thought "Ehh what the heck, I can find it out later..."

So I closed Terminal and went on with the (amazing!) Ubuntu life. But now I am having to install Java JDK 7.0.0.4 onto my computer to ya know, play games and such. But it is asking for my password for the encrypted Home folder but it never gave it to me... HELP!!!

Does anyone remember the command for Terminal to give you you're randomly generated Encryption password pop up on the famous purple window?

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Carlos L.
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It looks as if you are trying to install java, which (I presume it wants root access) needs an administrator's logon password, not the encryption key. Just give it the password you use to log on to Ubuntu. In fact, it is using sudo(or some GUI spinoff, like kdesudo, or gksudo) which uses the admin logon password to get rights to do anything under the system under the root account.

Reference: http://linux.die.net/man/8/sudo

Edit: Also, if it actually needs the encryption key, feel free to run:

ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase

upon the terminal to get the long hex string you need.

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