Just wondering if I use ecryptfs to encrypt my /home folder
sudo ecryptfs-migrate-home -u username
Can another user with root privilege change my password, then login my account using the new password see my encrypted /home?
If I change my own password, I suppose I can still access my encrypted /home , how is it different from root changing my password and login as me?
An encrypted /home directory gets mounted automatically for me when I log in. I have a second internal hard drive that I've formatted and encrypted with Disk Utility. I want it to be automatically mounted when I login, just like my encrypted /home directory is. How do I do this?
There are several very similar questions here, but the answers don't apply to my situation. It might be best to close/merge my question here and edit the second one below, but I think it may have been abandoned (and therefore never to be marked as accepted).
This solution isn't a secure method, it circumvents the encryption.
This one requires editing fstab, which necessitates entering an additional password at boot. It's not automatic like mounting /home.
This question is very similar, but does not apply to an encrypted drive. The solution won't work for my needs.
Here is one but it's for NTFS drives, mine is ext4.
I can re-format and re-encrypt the second drive if a solution requires this. I've got all the data backed up elsewhere.
I installed a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 onto a new hard drive and want to mount the old home directory to a subdirectory of my new (also encrypted) home directory.
I tried this with sudo mount -t ecryptfs /mnt/oldhome/me/ /home/me/oldhome, with /mnt/oldhome being the /home partition of the old system.
Afterwards ~/oldhome contains a desktop link file (Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop) linking to ecryptfs-mount-private and a README.txt saying I should run ecryptfs-mount-private. I do so, but as I don't know what is supposed to happen, I can't tell if it happens and if it brings me closer to accessing my old home.
Any hints?
update
I was able to mount my old encrypted home with the help of this script. Though, looking into it with ls, I get alot of errors like this:
ls: cannot access /mnt/oldme/some_file: No such file or directory
Other information ls -l should show, is replaced by question marks.
update 2
I mounted the old system to /mnt/oldroot and mount /dev, /sys, /proc and the old home partition into. Then I chrooted into /mnt/oldroot, su - me and ecryptfs-mount-private. Asked for the passphrase I put it in and got:
Error: Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session keyring failed [-5]
Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs
ERROR: Your passphrase is incorrect
ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase gives me the exact same passphrase I used, though.
I have a new Ubuntu 10.04 installation with encrypted home directory (using the built-in encryption offered by Ubuntu installer).
What's the easiest way to stop using encryption? (I.e., to decrypt my home directory permanently.)
(It's giving me problems with kernel updates, and I'd just like to cut down on all the hassle I'm having with this installation.)