Ubuntu :: Making Private Folder Appear With Ecryptfs-utils
May 7, 2011
I have a fresh install of Kubuntu 11.04 and I already have the lastest ecryptfs-utils installed. I have the ".Private" folder but not the "Private" folder.
When I try to set it up I get this error:
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$ ecryptfs-setup-private
ERROR: wrapped-passphrase file already exists, use --force to overwrite.
How do I get my "Private" folder to appear? I don't think I should just be throwing my stuff into ".Private" and I don't want to have to see all the hidden folders all the time either. Should I use the --force argument, and what would that do?
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Jan 10, 2016
After years with debian stable I'm testing debian...testing (stretch) in a separate partition. I'm just using the stretch repositories and nothing else, so that I won't mess up the system by pulling packages from different branches.
Unfortunately ecryptfs-utils is not (yet) available on stretch. Is there any safe way to use this package on my debian stretch, preferably the stable package from jessie?
How long it will take for this package to reach stretch from unstable?
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Sep 17, 2010
I just installed ecryptfs (debian Lenny). However, when I try to run it (as normal user), I get the following
$ ecryptfs-setup-private Enter your login passphrase: And it wont accept any password (naturally since this is the first time I'm running it).
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Aug 18, 2010
i noticed that all files can be seen by another computer if the drive is accessed
can I stop this? can i set a private folder?
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Jan 2, 2010
How to make a private torrent on Transmission? Back when I was on windows I used to do it on utorrent. I remember that you had to put [URL] for the announce url. I figured it would be the same thing on Transmission, but it's not working. Did I skip something, or do something wrong? Or is there a whole different way to do it on Transmission? It's been a while since I've done this.
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Oct 7, 2010
How do I stop one user account from being able to read files in another user account.
Right now once i log in, I can easily navigate to /home/[username] and copy/read any file. How do I make it thus that only /home/[username]/shared is allowed to be read/copied.
I would also like to prevent listing of directories.
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Sep 21, 2010
My Linux username is "virchanza" and my group is "virchanza".How do I make a publicly-accessible folder within my private home folder?
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Apr 17, 2011
if it's possible to use a white or blacklist to control which folders are ecryptfs encrypted when you're using the "encrypted home folder" option.
Of course I can always create an extra folder outside of my ~ and then symlink what I don't want encrypted into it, but I'd rather that it's possible to create like, ~/.ecryptsfs/excludelist with a list of paths that shouldn't be encrypted.
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Nov 26, 2010
I changed my permissions in my .ssh folder and now when I use a piece of software that uses my private key, I have to type my password each time. What should my permissions be on my id_rsa file to not have to type a password each time I use an app that uses it?
Currently my permissions are set to:
-rw-------@ 1 Jody staff 114 Nov 4 23:29 config
-rw------- 1 Jody staff 1743 Oct 21 2009 id_rsa
-rw-------@ 1 Jody staff 397 Oct 21 2009 id_rsa.pub
-rw-------@ 1 Jody staff 3855 Sep 13 22:35 known_hosts
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May 19, 2010
I used the command sudo chmod 0750 /home/Gianni to make my home folder private. Now, I would like that another user in my pc can read files in a subdirectory of my home. I was running several commands with chmod and chown and I tried with Nautilus too, but without success. I just would like to place a link on the second user's desktop, that he can click on and access my subdirectory.
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May 9, 2011
I need to remove exo-utils apperantly because i get an error every time I open a downloaded file using firefox which says, error: location is not a folder.
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Jun 25, 2010
I'm trying to make my first c project (a simple tic tac toe console game), and I am wondering how to make a final product (copy all source code files to a distribution folder upon compilation). Should I use a bash script or should I use a makefile to make the distribution folder? I'm not terrible familiar with either; I have a basic makefile to make an executable, and that's about all I know of make.
And if I do use a bash script, how do I copy over source code files? I tried cp ./*.c and cp ./*.h, but I think the script read it literally as moving a file named ./*.c (and ./*.h), and couldn't find it.
My makefile is pretty much this:
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objectFiles = main.o io.o board.o game.o
ttt : $(objectFiles)
cc -o ttt $(objectFiles)
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Jul 14, 2011
Quick question. I need to ensure that all my files within specific folders are marked as being read only if the folders name is 'Forms' for example. There may be many 'forms' folders on the server within many different directories.It is a requirement that everything within these folders are marked as being read only but people are not doing so for whatever reason, and would therefore like for it to be done automatically i.e. a script executed by a cron job every eve to esnure that all files within the forms directories are marked read only.
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Jun 5, 2011
make a simple script to copy files from my "hfiles " directory to a "www" folder at leats I think its a directory, it has the permissions as "lrwxrwxrwx " but its like a public branch So I proceeded to make a file entittled MkPublic to copy the "hfiles" directory to the "www" branch
here is the code i used:
#!/bin/sh
# COPIES FILES
echo "copying files"
[code]....
when i try to run the script it tells me that there is a syntax error and an unexpected end of file and nothing seems to get copied anywhere so clearly there is something wrong with one im doing, i tried multiple ways : using the quotes, spacing the equal signs, but I seem to still get the same results.
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Aug 6, 2010
I am trying to make my first tar file in linux. I am trying to make a tar file from a folder (with all subfolders and files) and using several commands I got several errors!
This is the tar usage:
tar [-]{txruc}[eONvVwAfblhm{op}][0-7[lmh]] [tapefile] [blocksize] [[-C directory] file] ...
Some of my attempts and responses:
tar -czf itic_glb_cognity-06082010.tar.gz itic-glb-cognity/
response: tar: z: unknown option (not using 'z' again!)
tar -cf itic-glb-cognity-06082010.tar.gz itic-glb-cognity/
response: tar: cannot stat itic-glb-cognity. Not dumped.
The last ones repeats for all the next attempts:
tar -cf itic-glb-cognity-06082010.tar.gz itic-glb-cognity
tar -cf iticglbcognity06082010.tar.gz itic-glb-cognity/
(full path + name without spaces) tar -cf iticglbcognity06082010.tar.gz /epos/webbus/bea/user_projects/domains/itic-glb-cognity
For some of the above a 10kb file was created, where the expected file would be about 250MB. I dont think it has anything to do with the user's rights, because I think I have them all.
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Jun 28, 2010
In my home directory, when I type
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du -hs
I get
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215G
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which is approximately HALF the space than actually needed. Is this increase due to ecryptfs? Also I noticed that the hidden folders are not shown. Are the hidden files within the shown folders included in this list? How do I show a summary which includes the hidden files?
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Nov 3, 2010
I recently had to install ubuntu 10.10 through wubi because my olde ubuntu broke after a failed upgrade. Now I am quite happy with everything in 10.10 except I can't get to the files in my olde home folder because I chose the home folder encryption option in the installation process. How can I recover my home folder? They all seemed to be recovering from another user not another partition.
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Feb 13, 2010
I'm backing up my data asap. However, I am getting hundreds, maybe thousands of disk I/O errors when trying to run everyday programs, such as sqlite and firefox. Looking at dmesg, I see these items repeated many, many times:
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[ 5196.943225] Valid eCryptfs headers not found in file header region or xattr region [ 5196.943232] Either the lower file is not in a valid eCryptfs format, or the key could not be retrieved. Plaintext passthrough mode is not enabled; returning -EIO
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Sep 15, 2010
I used ecryptfs on a Private directory. It has about 5GB of data, but no matter what I do I can't free space in there. I have tried to delete some GBs to no avail. System monitor still shows me 5GB.
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Jan 17, 2010
On a fresh karmic install, I have a user account with ecryptfs enabled home directory. I want that directory to be secured when I log out.
I have two administrator accounts, user1 and user2. I log in as user1 (with ssh, will test regular logins tomorrow), /home/user1/.Private gets mounted to /home/user1, everything is fine. I log out.
I log in as user2, and /home/user1/.Private is indeed unmounted. But I can do
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sudo su - user1
which will ask me for the password of user2, and then I am logged in as user1, /home/user1/.Private is again mounted, without ever typing the password of user1.
On the other hand if I invoke
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ecryptfs-umount-private
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Oct 11, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Ran some updates,finally got around to rebooting. When I rebooted, It came up with Some errors about missing files. Came to discover my home directory was not decrypted. I simply had a readme file that said to run "encryptfs-mount-private". When I do it doesn't tell me the passphrase is incorrect, it tells me
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Inserted auth tok with sig [xxxxxxxxxx] into the user session keyring You do not own that encrypted directory and I do own it. If I put in a different pass it tells me it's incorrect, I'm logging in fine, but my home directory is remaining encrypted.
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Dec 16, 2010
I've setup an ecryptfs folder which I can easily mount/umount as su.
Inspite of adding a `user' option in fstab I'm unable to mount the folder as normal user: mount secret
Code:
Passphrase:
Error attempting to evaluate mount options: [-22] Invalid argument
Check your system logs for details on why this happened.
Try updating your ecryptfs-utils package, and/or
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Jun 3, 2010
After a disastrous upgrade to 10.04 I am at my wits end trying to recover my /home partition from my unbootable system. The /home partition is part of a RAID5 array across 4 disks and I've been trying to use some disk imaging tools from Ultimate Boot CD to recover it with, but none of the utilities seem to recognize or will let me work with my multi-disk device.
Currently I've been booting up with a Live CD in attempts to mount the encrypted partition then copy all the files to an external device I bought, but the mounting process has presented me with some problems. The partition in encrypted with ecryptfs and I have both the disk's passphrase as well as an FNEK signature to work with. Attempting the following:
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Another small issue is the cipher I used. I don't remember which kind of encryption the disk is encrypted with (80% sure it's aes though). I assume figuring out which cipher I used will be more like a guessing game through the ecryptfs mount prompt, but I'm wondering if this would affect the error message I get.
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Aug 24, 2010
I'm getting "Low Disk Space" warnings in Ubuntu 10.04, because of eCryptfs, which somehow manages to eat up twice as much disk space as an unencrypted partition normally would.When I click "Examine" this is the picture that I see:(the blurred out part is my username of course)Why is this happening?And most importantly, what can I do about it?Does Ubuntu expect me to buy twice as much disk space just to encrypt it?!
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Jan 10, 2010
Right, I seem to get very random system crashes. My machine will stay up for long periods of time, or sometimes only a few mins, also it doesn't seem related to just using a particular program. As you can imagine this is leading to a bag of woes. After reading on a forum about logs I went to /var/log and in the system log found the following entry . . .
"Jan 10 18:46:10 jon-desktop kernel: [ 92.718896] Either the lower file is not in a valid eCryptfs format, or the key could not be retrieved. Plaintext passthrough mode is not enabled; returning -EIO"
This is repeated multiple times and having checked after a few crashes seems to be the central problem. Being specific about the crashes, they freeze the entire system. Can't ctl-alt-del and sound loops, have to hard reset. I have a feeling that when I first installed Ubuntu 9.10 I selected to use an encrypted file system but have a feeling that I didn't set it up correctly. Not sure exactly what I didn't do but I seem to remember it was to do with generating a passphrase. So . . .
1) What is this error from my logs?
2) Is it linked to me not setting up the encrypted filesystem correctly?
3) Is there a way to check the settings / sort them out properly?
4) Is there documentation for my dullard state which can aid me in this, or is it quite simple?
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May 30, 2010
I have an ecryptfs partition on a usb drive, system runs Debian squeezeWhat I'd like to have is that when I connect the drive it will be auto. mounted and I'lleither have to enter the passphrase or it will already be in the keyring (even better).It seems ecryptfs can auto-mount a directory but I want to auto-mount an entire encryptd partition. Is this possible?.Also, can I have another encrypted directory, say ~/Private, at the same time or can ecryptfs handle only one at a time?
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Jan 23, 2010
I have a strange problem with my MINI Ubuntu. I am able to shutdown -h now and restart with power button, as long as I don't install pm-utils. If I install pm-utils, the computer turns of after shutdown -h now, but will not wake up after I press the power button. Light goes on, drives are running, but no BEEP.
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Oct 21, 2010
Just updated Meerkat - and the alsa-utils update did not go well. Aptitude reported an error trying to config. Anybody else with this problem? Workarounds or do we wait for a few days till the maintainers fix it?
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Apr 26, 2011
I'm trying to install eCryptfs in my new Slackware system. ./configure runs pretty well, without errors, but when a try to run `make` i got this:
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main.c:25:22: error: pk11func.h: No such file or directory
main.c: In function 'do_hash':
main.c:77: error: 'SECStatus' undeclared (first use in this function)
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But i do have 3 copies of pk11func.h under:
/usr/include/seamonkey-2.0.4/pk11func.h
/usr/include/seamonkey-2.0.4/nss/pk11func.h
/usr/include/nss/pk11func.h
What's going wrong?, why the compiler can't find the header if it's installed? I don't have too much experience compiling package, and it's the first time i try to it in Slackware.
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Nov 21, 2010
I tried compiling linux kernel 2.6.37-rc2 (mainline), Compilation and installation of kernel and modules went fine. After that while trying to make initrd image, I used the following command :-
mohitdhingras@mohitdhingras-laptop:~$ sudo mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.37-rc2 2.6.37-rc2
It is showing warnings like :-
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/2.6.37-rc2/radeon/RV610_me.bin for module radeon
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/2.6.37-rc2/radeon/RV610_pfp.bin for module radeon
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/2.6.37-rc2/radeon/R600_me.bin for module radeon
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/2.6.37-rc2/radeon/R600_pfp.bin for module radeon
Actually, "2.6.37-rc2" folder is missing in "firmware".
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