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I needed to encrypt a directory on laptop quickly & with the minimum of fuss. So rather than re-partition drives etc (necessary for some encryption types) I used ecryptfs, which is relatively quick & straight forward to set up.
root@sal:~# apt-get install ecryptfs-utils root@sal:~# modprobe ecryptfs jamespk@sal:~$ ecryptfs-setup-private Enter your login passphrase [jamespk]: #login password Enter your mount passphrase [leave blank to generate one]: ************************************************************************ YOU SHOULD RECORD YOUR MOUNT PASSPHRASE AND STORE IT IN A SAFE LOCATION. ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase THIS WILL BE REQUIRED IF YOU NEED TO RECOVER YOUR DATA AT A LATER TIME. ************************************************************************ Logout, and log back in to begin using your encrypted directory.
All fairly straight forward, *but* I came across this warning: here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590081 It seems that when Debian installs ecryptfs, it does not add it to /etc/modules, which is important as that link suggests that you might well get locked out of your desktop. So make sure you add a line for `ecryptfs` in /etc/modules.
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