Questions tagged [ecryptfs]
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Access my encrypted home folder on Mint
I got locked out form my old pc with Linux Mint 20 on it that my mum's using. It didn't recognize my password anymore, even though I was 100% sure it was the right one... Indeed the login screen doesn'...
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Why does CUPS attempt to open ecryptfs wrapped-passphrase?
I am trying to add a printer manually via the CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631/admin/) but it is not working. I see that when I click "Add printer", a username/password dialog pops ...
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How to decrypt files that are encrypted with ecryptfs, after deletion and recovery
I encrypted my whole home directory with ecryptfs and accidentaly deleted the whole .Private and .ecryptfs directories. I somehow managed to recover all the deleted files using PhotoRec.
I have the ...
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Cannot login normally after login loop
I recently had a login loop that kept sending me back to the login screen no matter how many times I entered the correct password. I decided to login accessing the terminal directly by pressing cntrl+...
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Ubuntu encrypted home folder got corrupted
I installed Ubuntu and encrypted the home folder. Then I forgot the login password and tried to change it:
from the recovery mode, I've selected the root shell and at the prompt I entered:
mount -rw -...
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dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libecryptfs1'
OS: Linux Mint 20.3
I usually get this error whenever I do sudo apt update.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libecryptfs1' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
But it ...
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Ecryptfs directory on USB Drive
I have an encrypted directory on my USB drive that I encrypted using ecryptfs on an old computer. I know the passphrase I used at the time to encrypt this directory but I cant seem to decrypt it on a ...
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Is there a way to decrypt the encrypted files (using ecryptFS) on Linux?
I am using ecryptFS for encryption of data on Linux. Is there a way on Linux to decrypt the data without mounting the encrypted folder?
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How to hide timestamps on encrypted data files with ecryptfs?
I was investigating using ecryptfs to encrypt a single directory in my computer, but one of the things I noticed was that it leaks timestamps operations on unencrypted files in the lower encrypted ...
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ecryptfs mounted home folder "disappears" when Samba closes session for my (interactive) user via PAM
On Ubuntu 20.04 - and I have encountered this with (vanilla) GNOME before - with KDE Plasma (no, not Kubuntu!), I am faced with a strange thing that happens every few hours or so and for which I have ...
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How to use eCryptfs under Google Cloud Shell?
I am trying to use ecryptfs under Google Cloud Shell. Google Cloud Shell is a virtual machine running Debian GNU/Linux 9. I installed ecryptfs-utils package using command:
sudo apt install ecryptfs-...
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Encrypting home folder without filename encryption using `ecryptfs`
ecryptfs encrypts home folders with filename encryption by default. However, because of this, filenames with more than 143 characters can not exist in the home folder (while an unencrypted ext4 home ...
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Can the eCryptfs encrypted filename prefix be changed?
If I enable filename encryption in eCryptfs, when I unmount the filesystem all my files have names which start with "ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED". I understand the need for the file system to have a ...
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Change the default mount option on encryptfs home during login - pam_mount
I've Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia and I've set up the encrypted home. It works fine out of the box. It is mounted with these default options:
mount | grep /home
/dev/sda1 on /home type btrfs rw,noatime,...
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pam_mount to mount ecryptfs-encrypted folder at login
My system has encrypted home by using ecryptfs-utils. I try to use pam_mount to mount a second encrypted folder, which has the same password, at login.
After installing pam-mount package from ...
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NFS mount on client not matching what's exported on the server
I've managed to successfully network two home computers with a crossover Ethernet cable. My intention is to arrange a fast transfer of files from one to the other. This is the first time I'm pairing ...
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Encrypting a currently used external hard drive such that it can be updated with rsync?
I currently have an unencrypted external hard drive that I use as a backup for my encrypted (with LUKS) main machine. To update my backup, I simply log in to the main machine and rsync to my external ...
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Change encryted home files to not hidden directory
I'm using Linux Mint 19 Tara with home folder encryption set during OS installation.
I know that my encrypted files are stored under ~/home/.ecryptfs
But I need to have them under not hidden directory,...
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Automount ecryptfs home in chroot (when using schroot)
my host system is archlinux and i need an ubuntu enviornment ready to be used with the files in my home directory. Problem is: my home directory is encrypted using ecryptfs. So when i launch the ...
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How to mount ecryptfs and preserve individual SELinux tag of underlying files?
I am trying to mount ecryptfs on a system that uses SELinux (e.g. Cent-OS), and I want to preserve the security tag of all individual underlying files. Using mount -o command I can set the security ...
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Ecryptfs input/output error
Recently my primary workstation OS "Linux Ubuntu" failed to boot and has since become irrecoverable, however the encrypted home directory is still intact but i cannot decrypt as it keeps giving me ...
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Disk encryption with ecryptfs - full disk
i'm new and i hope to find an answer here. Please tell me, if you need more information.
I have an disk encryption for my home partition on Linux 4.13.0-43-generic x86_64 (Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS).
Today ...
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I mounted a ZFS dataset within an ecryptfs directory and now cannot see the contents or change the mountpoint
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a desktop that uses a ZFS on Linux (ZoL) pool. My home directory is encrypted using the built-in encryption setup at install time and has worked great, and ZFS has ...
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How is it possible 8 blocks get allocated but file size 0?
Someone ask me in other site about this question, i.e. a file named "abc.dat" has 0 file size but 8 blocks, and this is the output I ask him to give me (Some text has been translated from Chinese to ...
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How to auto-mount HDD within encrypted /home partition/directory?
My machine has a secondary (NTFS-formatted) internal hard disk drive containing most of my personal files and data. I wish to auto-mount this drive under my user HOME. However, during installation of ...
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