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 RepliesI'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?
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 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to restrict users to their home directories and allow admins to have different home directories? Essentially I want users to have a folder in /var/www/html/$USER and admins to have either unrestricted access or have their root directory be ./ or /www or /etc. I have is set now so users have access to thier home direcotry but I need to upload web files as admin.
So far I have created:
chroot_list
user_list
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If I have a partition like /dev/hd1 that is unencrypted and want it to be encrypted, but want to keep everything currently in that partition, how can I do that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedBeen digging around and not finding anything that quite works.
Background: I had an existing 10.10 install and 10.04 on another partition. When I installed the 10.04 I told it to use the existing /home partition which is also being used by the 10.10 install. All good, both users have directories with all their data in the same /home partition.
Issue: So, as the 10.04 was 32bit (experimenting but another story) I decided I would replace with 10.04 64bit. All went well except when I did the manual partitioning I screwed up and instead of setting the existing /home partition to 'use but don't format' - which I think is what I must have done last time - I left it as 'don't use and don't format'. So, obviously, now the new 10.04 install has its /home inside /, which I don't want. I want it on the existing /home partition as it was with the previous 10.04 install.
Question(s): Is there any simple(ish) way of doing this without a reinstall? Not a major problem as I have only just installed and can do it again without losing anything but time, but I would like to figure out a way to do it without if possible.I want to essentially move the /home/user directory (rather than the /home) and make it /media/home/user inside the existing partition. Seems easy enough on the surface but becomes involved as I investigate.Ubuntu 10.04 minimal install with Xfce DE.
if these are set to be encrypted on installation how would I go about changing that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there anything special about a home directory before users' home directories are stored there, or is just as typical as any other "empty" folder?Let me just cut to the chase, but please no ear ringing about the folly of messing around as root, particularly with directories at root level. I know it's considered stupidity, but I deleted my home directory.
Is there an easy way to restore a working home directory? I tried copying /etc/skel under root, but I'm not sure what a home directory should look like once it has been restored. Besides . & .., there were .screenrc & .xsession in my home directory when I copied /etc/skel. Are these files suppose to be in "/home" or "/home/~" or both?
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
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want encrypt my home folder by using the DES? How to do it?
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 RelatedHow can I make Debian encrypt and decrypt my home folder when I log in/out like Ubuntu does?
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?
View 8 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.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just found a neat way to encrypt a file in Ubuntu 10.04.
I right click on a file and select the Encrypt option. The program prompts me to "Choose Recipient" so I choose myself on the list. Then it prompts me to enter my passphrase.
Once all that's done I hit enter and it adds .pgp to the end of whatever file just encrypted. The same basic method is used to Sign the file.
Does it sound as though what I said is correct and that the file I wanted to encrypt was indeed encrypted?
Can anyone crack my files without the passphrase? I'm sure it depends on the complexity and length of the passphrase.
Trying to clean install 11.2 dual boot with Win xp already installed. How do I create a new home partition, don't want to preserve the existing home partition from a previous attempt. DVD installation and automatic config keeps saving the thing.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWe have some script files on our linux servers. For security purpose our requirement is to keep these files encrypted . I mean when we open the files it will looks like as for example i am showing you one encripted file of iur server. how can i do this.
one encrypted files from our server:-
[utibaadm@AIRTELVTUD2_UVAS01server_monitoring]$cat SOUTH_DTH_MONITOR.sh
#!/bin/sh
skip=14
tmpdir=`/bin/mktemp -d ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/gzexe.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1
prog="${tmpdir}/`echo "$0" | sed 's|^.*/||'`"
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Is there a way to encrypt your swap partition after installation?
View 3 Replies View RelatedFolks:What can I use to encrypt all data on my USB flash drive? If possible, could I use something that has a public Key, so I do not have to type in a password to access the information when I plug the drive into my machie, but will not open or display contant if the drive is plugged into anyone else's machine, unless they have the public key?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04. I love the passwords and keys application, but was somewhat surprised at the lack of a context menu in gnome to encrypt a file.
In general, I cannot find how to encrypt files using the keys I generate. Maybe I'm missing something? Probably, I just thought since Ubuntu comes with OOB key generation it would have OOB encryption capabilities.
I've read about seahorse and other ways to ADD encryption, I'm just wondering if ubuntu does it natively. It'd be a good idea to add to brainstorms, right click and encrypt.
So what I want to do is encrypt my entire hard drive, but heres the thing.
I dual boot Ubuntu and windows 7, but I am afraid that if I use truecrypt to do the encrypting that it will wipe GRUB and not allow me to boot into any OS, is that a possibility and is there a way around it?
How would You encrypt Passwords [emails,forums,accounts] onto USB Flash the most Secure way? (It should be command line so I can use any Linux distribution on it.) Is gpg -c <filename> secure enough ? And what FAST distro would you install on it? I'm learning on old USB flash and found SliTaz pretty damn cool,I use it as a LiveUSB. Also I've tried Kubuntu but it's bit slow. Going to try Lubuntu soon too. Any other idea?
And I'd like to install some FAST distro onto new 8GB mini USB flash drive,maybe Kubuntu as well. How would you partition its Flash drive? Probably separate partition for stored encrypted files?
I just tried out setting a master password for Firefox saved passwords and compared the old and new (before and after setting the master password) signons.sqlite files. Although passwords were not stored in plain text in either of the files, I did notice that the files were exactly the same. Am I wrong in assuming that setting the master password did not encrypt anything at all, or am I simply looking at the wrong file?
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