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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Ecryptfs : Decryption problem results in first level Question Marks when issuing 'ls -la'
I am sorry I did not find any related topic matching here. I have weird installation behaviour right after I installed my Linux Mint 22 in my existing partition table structure:
Luks Encrypted ...
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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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Cannot decrypt Linux Mint files on log in
I have a dual boot laptop with Windows and Linux mint. In the Linux Mint partition I encrypted the file storage and this has been working fine for 4+ years, it decrypts on log in. Yesterday some ...
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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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ecryptfs: ls lists top level folders but with "no such file or directory" for them
I've managed to mount "old" ecryptfs home folder with sudo mount -t ecryptfs [SRC DIR] [DST DIR]. It was failing for ecryptfs-recover-private with mount: No such file or directory and with ...
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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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eCryptfs With Mount Command Has Passphrase Cache?
Guys help me understand this!
I'm using eCryptfs with mount command to encrypt a single folder. In first time for setup the volume I run:
mount --types ecryptfs /path/to/.private /path/to/.private
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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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Large .ecryptfs folder on new computer
I have recently built a brand new computer and decided to install Linux Mint on it and I have recently realized that I only have about 730GB of free space out of the 1TB SSD I installed.
After some ...
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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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Why did my tar backup fail?
My home directory is encrypted with ecryptfs. I wanted to try some things that required reinstalling my system, so I backed up to a flash drive with this command:
sudo tar cf backup.tar.zstd --one-...
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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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Encrypted home dir suddenly failing to mount on boot
After an update and a reboot, my ecryptfs home directory in Linux is failing to decrypt and mount on boot. It caused a bit of a panic, as Mint seemed entirely reinstalled from scratch (but the ...
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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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