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Questions tagged [ecryptfs]

eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Ubuntu's encrypted home directory feature uses this technology.

eCryptfs is just one component in a comprehensive set of mechanisms to protect the confidentiality of your data.

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How to stop using built-in home directory encryption?

I have a new Ubuntu 10.04 installation with encrypted home directory (using the built-in encryption offered by Ubuntu installer). What's the easiest way to stop using encryption? (I.e., to decrypt my home directory permanently.) (It's giving me…
Jonik
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When installing I'm given the option of encrypting my home folder -- what does this do?

Does encrypting my home folder make my computer more secure? Do I have to enter my password more if my home folder is encrypted? What else should I know about encrypting my home folder?
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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 believe. I've now stuck this into my computer…
Naftuli Kay
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Trying to mount old encrypted home

I installed a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 onto a new hard drive and want to mount the old home directory to a subdirectory of my new (also encrypted) home directory. I tried this with sudo mount -t ecryptfs /mnt/oldhome/me/ /home/me/oldhome, with…
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/dev/sda1: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found

I was using my Ubuntu 2015.04 (with ecryptfs-encrypted user home) laptop normally when suddenly, the hard drive became read-only. I rebooted and now it is stuck on this: [ 0.703206] ACPI PCC probe failed. starting version 219 error: /dev/sdb: No…
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Will changing password re-encrypt my home directory?

I need to change my user password. Do I need to take any extra steps for my encrypted home directory to become inaccessible with my old password and only accessible with my new password?
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Can root see my encrypted /home folder?

Just wondering if I use ecryptfs to encrypt my /home folder sudo ecryptfs-migrate-home -u username Can another user with root privilege change my password, then login my account using the new password see my encrypted /home? If I change my own…
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Securely automount encrypted drive at user login

An encrypted /home directory gets mounted automatically for me when I log in. I have a second internal hard drive that I've formatted and encrypted with Disk Utility. I want it to be automatically mounted when I login, just like my encrypted /home…
Tom Brossman
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problem with ecryptfs-recover-private: mount(2) failed

I'm in the process of moving my OS and data from one drive to another within the same computer. (I got a nice, new SSD.) My old home directory had an encrypted sub directory inside, and I'd like to access the encrypted directory from my new install.…
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Disk Usage Analyzer reports that the .ecryptfs file is taking up as much space as the home drive

I selected "encrypt home partition" when I set up my netbook with Ubuntu. The disk usage analyzer now reports that twice as much space is taken up than actually is used. I have seen this question asked a few times, but the response typically tends…
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How can I completely remove ecryptfs from my system and delete .Private?

Few days back I have installed ecryptfs, created a private directory using it. Now my Ubuntu login became super slow. I have tried removing ecryptfs from Synaptic. I found It, it can not be deleted that way. Somewhere I have read about this…
Curious Apprentice
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ecryptfs and login passphrase vs mount passphrase

I installed ecryptfs-utils and used it to create a Private encrypted folder in my home directory. During creation of Private encrypted folder I was asked for a login passphrase and a mount passphrase. As far as I understood the login passphrase…
Asarluhi
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Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session keyring failed

After entering the correct passphrase at the command ecryptfs-mount-private, I am getting this error: torben@torben-nettop:~$ sudo ecryptfs-recover-private INFO: Searching for encrypted private directories (this might take a while)... INFO: Found…
Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
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What is the recommended method to encrypt the home directory in Ubuntu 21.04?

Installing Ubuntu to a new Notebook, I was surprised that I wasn't offered the option to encrypt the home directory any more. I found some vague information that Ubuntu dropped ecryptfs support a while ago in favor of complete disc encryption with…
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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 fstab, put the wrapped-passphrase file on the drive,…
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