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Ubuntu 22.04 home directory encryption on a shared computer
First time poster, hi!
I'm an IT support person and I have a need to explore what encrypting home directories on a shared machine running Ubuntu 22.04 would look like. I have read this article that ...
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How to default to encryption of new home directories when using ldap
When using adduser, one can pass --encrypt-home to encrypt the newly generated home directory. Supposedly, this can be made the default by correctly setting up /etc/adduser.conf.
However, for ...
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What is the state of the art setup for encrypted home directories which allow remote SSH login in 2022/2024?
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What is the state of the art replacement for ecryptfs, while allowing user logins through SSH without a "master" full disk encryption (= FDE) password?
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Create encrypted home after Ubuntu LTS 22.04 installation
I would like to create an encrypted home directory for my users on already installed ubuntu. What is the best way to do this ?
Kind regards,
Sylvain
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Home Directory Deletion
For some reason I had the remnants of an old encrypted drive in my home directory from a previous distro that I had copied over long ago. Basically my home directory only contained the encrypted ...
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Reinstall Ubuntu 22.04 with fscrypt encrypted HOME directory?
Unfortunately, an encrypted home partition in Ubuntu 22.04 is not going to be unencrypted by default unless someone does some tricky preparations.
Even if one does, it will not be possible to use it ...
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"ERROR: Cannot proceed" when trying to encrpyt home directory in Ubuntu 20.04
I installed ecryptfs-utils cryptsetup. Then I created a new user and assigned sudo privileges. After that, I tried to to encrypt the main user's home directory and ran into an error.
encryption_user@...
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Decrypt user home after installing Ubuntu 22.04
I have a laptop with two mount points, one with the system (/) and another with the /home folder. My user folder in /home was encrypted with Ubuntu 20.04.
This morning I re-installed the system with ...
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How to set user interface language for user with encrypted home?
After encrypting home directory by means of ecryptfs tool specified UI language is not applied after system restart.
If user in the system only one the whole system UI can be changed to needed one. ...
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Putting /home in a different drive than root drive
I have SSD, and HDD, on a new computer that I am preparing installing Ubutu 20.04 on. Because the SSD, and HDD, will be RAIDed, and both will be natively encrypted, I am doing a manual install. I have ...
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home directory is full even tho the home partition is not
I have recently increased my home partition's size using GParted, from ~10GB to 150GB.
lsblk outputs the following
sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
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Why won't a new Ubuntu 20.04.2 install mount old encrypted home directories? [duplicate]
I keep home directories on a separate /home partition. When I reinstall Ubuntu (generally Ubuntu-Mate), I format the root partition but keep /home and create user accounts in the same order with the ...
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What is the recommended method to encrypt the home directory in Ubuntu 21.04?
Installing Ubuntu to a new Notebook, I was surprised that I wasn't offered the option to encrypt the home directory any more.
I found some vague information that Ubuntu dropped ecryptfs support a ...
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How short path to convert my home partition(encrypted) ext4 to btrfs?
What steps should I take to convert my / home (ext4) partition to btrfs
It will be worth it, because in the past (2 years or more) I have used this file system, but I had some problems, especially ...
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How do I decrypt a home folder from another machine using fscrypt?
I have 2 machines (machine1 & machine2) both running Ubuntu 18.04. Both machines use fscrypt to encrypt the home folder (using login passphrase). If I remove the hard disk (hd1) from machine1 and ...
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