I chose the option to encrypt my home folder during installation, but I don't want it encrypted anymore since that makes it impossible to access any files in my home folder unless I'm logged in as that user.
I'm really hoping to avoid reinstalling from scratch just to fix this. Anyone know how to do it?
BTW, it's Ubuntu Server 11.04 32-bit.
How to decrypt encrypted home folder?Which is already encrypted ?
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-Brett Bowman
Erdr1ck
System:
Ubuntu 10.10 (AMD64)
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I can't access the home-folder. There is a problem with ecryptfs
computer@computer:~$ cd /
computer@computer:/$ ecryptfs-mount-private
Enter your login passphrase:
Inserted auth tok with sig [ ] into the user session keyring
mount: Operation not permitted
Nothing is shown on the desktop and trying to access home or any folder inside gives me an error which says:
Could not open location 'file:///home/lisandro' No application is registered as handling this file
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