I recently installed Ubuntu Linux and did not encrypt the home directory during the install. Now I want to encrypt my home directory, or even better the whole hard drive.
View 2 RepliesI have a major major issue with an encrypted /home directory. I had used encryption on my home directory when I installed 9.10. However, I had not noticed that I needed to store the automatically generated passphrase anywhere. Now, upon installing 10.04, my home directory would not decrypt. I checked my .encryptfs directory and the wrapped-passphrase file is GONE. I only have the Private.sig files from my 9.10 installation and of course know the login password I binded to the passphrase. I can see my .Private directory with filenames starting with ECRYPTFS_FNEC_ENCRYPTED. Now, my PhD thesis which I have to deliver in 2 weeks is in there. With no backups. How to recover my data. If no 'normal' method would work, is it possible to use a brute force attack and feed it my login password?
View 3 Replies View Relatedif these are set to be encrypted on installation how would I go about changing that?
View 2 Replies View Relatedhave the home directory encrypted after the initial installation? I know on a clean installation you can set this up.However, is there an easy way to do so after? Ubuntu Karmic x64
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using lucid desktop edition, and I need to encrypt my home folder, but I didn't mark that option in the fresh instalation of lucid. I'd like the login screen to ask for the password and then decrypt my files.Is it possible to do without erasing my user?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have just installed Ubuntu Jaunty (I do not like Karmic, please don't try to make me upgrade) and after installing all my programs I realized I did not encrypt my home directory.
I know it's very simple to do this during the installation but I can't seem to find an option to do it after it.
Is there a way to do this?
Is there a way to encrypt existing home directories in lucid so that they will unlock with pam-encfs when the user logs in? Or must you do this when the directory is created?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am looking for something like Ubuntu does (or claims to do :-) ): encrypt the home folder so that, once done, you can even forget that it ever was encrypted.
I have had a quick look to encfs, and to the KDE "right click menu"; but, when dealing with folders, it seems that they pack them into a single file and then encrypts it (if I have correctly understood).
So, what is the way of encrypting the home folder (and subfolders) as Ubuntu does? (and so that you can completely forget afterwards)
lets say I install Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. I check the box that says encrypt my home directory, and my password is a randomly generated 10 character password using uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers. The next day my laptop gets stolen or something. How hard would it be for someone to decrypt the home directory if that were the goal?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI had a student, and she has done some work on her account on my lab computer, but has left the country and is un-contactable.
I have full administrator privileges for this machine, and it is running Ubuntu LTS 10.04
She has a folder which was copied from a windows formatted external hard drive (Probably NTFS) onto her home partition on my machine.
I can open all of her files, except for those in this folder.
As I see it the problem is either something to do with the permissions of the files (coming from NTFS), or some kind of Ubuntu security that I am unaware of?
Here are my attempts to open it code...
Running Ubuntu 10.04 I logged into (sudo?) (root?) using:
Code:
sudo -s
and then entering my password.
I navigated into the home folder and viewed the long listing of it's contents using:
Code:
root@host:~# cd /home; ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 65 uname uname 4096 2011-05-22 17:14 uname
[Code]...
Not using filename encryption when you create a new encrypted folder is easy, but how to disable it in the home encryption that is automatically set up by the Karmic installation CD?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am running ubuntu 11.04 I'd like to encrypt my home folder. - how can it be done, without creating new user/starting from scratch. -I'd like to keep all the files and desktop settings - the only change should be that the folder is encrypted now.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSometimes you get more than you ask for and in this case, I did: I had no idea (had the computer for a few years now) that I was running a dual core 64 bit machine. The silly thing is that I have 32bit Fedora 11 on it, 32 bit versions of all my installed software...etc., etc. Am I able at this point to salvage anything or is it best to just back up the home directory and then do a reinstall?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have an interdependent collection of scripts in my ~/bin directory as well as a developed ~/.vim directory and some other libraries and such in other subdirectories. I've been versioning all of this using git, and have realized that it would be potentially very easy and useful to do development and testing of new and existing scripts, vim plugins, etc. using a cloned repo, and then pull the working code into my actual home directory with a merge.
The easiest way to do this would seem to be to just change & export $HOME, eg
cd ~/testing; git clone ~ home
export HOME=~/testing/home
cd ~
screen -S testing-home
# start vim, write/revise plugins, edit scripts, etc.
# test revisions
However since I've never tried this before I'm concerned that some programs, environment variables, etc., may end up using my actual home directory instead of the exported one. Is this a viable strategy? Are there just a few outliers that I should be careful about?
I just installed the testing version of Debian with the option to setup encrypted home directories. I used a passphrase that I now want to change to something else. How do I do that?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIn my opinion there should be a tool installed in Ubuntu by default which lets the user easily encrypt his home folder. One is given the option in the installed, but if one decides to encrypt his folders afterwards that's quite hard to achieve.
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View 1 Replies View Relatedwhat i want to do is encrypt my entire home folder or at least make a new private folder where everything is encrypted. Previously i had tried to use truecrypt but it didnt work well on opensuse 11.2. Anyone here have issues with truecrypt with opensuse 11.2?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI want to have a "Private" folder on my flash drive. How would I encrypt it so that it asks for a password when you try to open it?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm currently writing a simple script which uses luckyBackup to backup my /home directory to /tmp. I then want to tar it, encrypt it with gpg and move it onto a usb stick. My question is that suppose my hard disk died and I needed to restore from this USB backup, would I still be able to decrypt the file given that I would have lost gpg keys etc when the disk died? (I would still know the passphrase though). Should I be backing up gpg files separately?
View 9 Replies View RelatedIm using gmail with https always turned on but what programs can i use to easily encrypt emails? Is pretty good privacy easy to use?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a ext hdd..seagate go. And my 14 yr old son likes to get into it without asking me; of course i dont care when he asks but i don't really want him to get in there and erase anything. I am about to leave for training for 18 weeks with the military. Is there a way i can "secure" the drive for the amount of time that I can't take it with me?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI loaded Ubuntu desktop onto my flash drive with the USB Installer For Ubuntu from [url]
I'll be placing sensitive data on the drive & need to figure out how to encrypt it. From what i've read so far, the easiest way will be to encrypt the swap, /home, tmp, temp files. Not quite sure how to do this. I'd prefer to encrypt the whole drive, but this seems quite complicated.
I already have Ubuntu 9.10 on my system and don't want to have to reinstall all my programs after a clean install. I want to encrypt my hard drive so it will boot and ask for a password. Does anyone know if this is possible?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm looking for software to encrypt my entire S.O. It's something like nobody can erase the hard drive or can't trying to hack. I'm using Ubuntu Server x64.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to think of the best way to encrypt a partition on my flash drive.
I plan on storing ssh/pgp keys on it for use on different computers (including school computers, where I won't have administrative access).
TrueCrypt is going to require admin access to decrypt and mount the partition, I think, so that's out.
Are there any other methods you all would recommend?
I know Pidgin store chat log in plain text or HTML format.Is there any plugin for pidgin to encrypt the chat log while logging it?Similar to Windows version of MSN Messenger free application called MSNPlus! that contains this feature to encrypt chat log.
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