Ubuntu Security :: Can Encrypt Home Directory After Installed The OS

Apr 10, 2010

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.

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Ubuntu Security :: 10.04 Installed - Home Directory Not Decrypting

May 5, 2010

I 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?

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Feb 19, 2010

if these are set to be encrypted on installation how would I go about changing that?

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Ubuntu :: Encrypt Home Directory After Install?

Apr 6, 2010

have 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

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Ubuntu Security :: How To Encrypt My Home Folder

May 11, 2010

I'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?

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Ubuntu Security :: Encrypt Home Folder After Installation?

Feb 11, 2010

I 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?

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Ubuntu Security :: Encrypt Existing Home Directories In Lucid?

Jun 5, 2010

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?

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OpenSUSE Install :: Encrypt Home Directory To Use It "on The Fly" (ubuntu)?

Dec 22, 2010

I 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)

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Ubuntu Security :: Decrypt The Home Directory If That Were The Goal?

Nov 30, 2010

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?

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Ubuntu Security :: Get Data From Another User's Home Directory?

Aug 23, 2011

I 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...

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Ubuntu Security :: Permission Denied When Copy Home Directory?

May 22, 2011

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]...

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Ubuntu Security :: Disabling Filename Encryption On An Encrypted Home Directory?

Jan 3, 2010

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?

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Ubuntu Security :: Move To Encrypted Home Directory Not Losing Data?

Jul 20, 2011

I 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.

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Fedora Installation :: Installed 32bit On 64bit System - Salvage Anything Or Back Up The Home Directory?

Jun 2, 2010

Sometimes 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?

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General :: Testing Home Directory Scripts By Setting $HOME To The Location Of The Test Directory

Apr 20, 2010

I 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?

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Nov 21, 2010

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?

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Ubuntu Security :: Encrypting Home Folder After Having Installed Ubuntu?

Dec 19, 2010

In 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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Jan 27, 2011

I want encrypt my home folder by using the DES? How to do it?

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OpenSUSE :: How To Encrypt Home Folder Post Installtion

Jun 18, 2010

what 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?

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Ubuntu :: Encrypt Directory On Flash Drive

Jan 17, 2010

I 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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General :: How Can I Make Debian Encrypt And Decrypt My Home Folder

Jul 25, 2010

How can I make Debian encrypt and decrypt my home folder when I log in/out like Ubuntu does?

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Ubuntu Security :: Backup And Encrypt Using GPG

Jan 20, 2010

I'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?

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Ubuntu Security :: How To Encrypt Emails

Mar 14, 2010

Im using gmail with https always turned on but what programs can i use to easily encrypt emails? Is pretty good privacy easy to use?

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Ubuntu Security :: Lock Or Encrypt An Ext Hdd?

Jul 27, 2010

I 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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General :: Command - Encrypt A File Or Directory?

Feb 23, 2011

What 's the most popular command to do such things in terminal in linux?

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Ubuntu Security :: How To Encrypt A 9.10 Flash Drive

Feb 16, 2010

I 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.

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Ubuntu Security :: Encrypt Everything Except Boot Without Reinstalling?

May 1, 2010

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?

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Ubuntu Security :: Software To Encrypt My Entire S.O?

Jun 11, 2010

I'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.

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Ubuntu Security :: Encrypt A USB Stick Partition?

Oct 28, 2010

I'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?

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Ubuntu Security :: How To Encrypt Chat Log In Pidgin

Oct 30, 2010

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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