Comments on: HOWTO Encrypt an existing home directory on Ubuntu Karmic Koala

By: jsha

jsha — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:07:56 +0000

Thanks for the corrections, Keith! I’ve update the post to include them. Glad you found the guide helpful.

Keith — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:24:46 +0000

Excellent guide, also exactly what I was looking for. I had 2 problems with it:

1. The sed line should read

# sed -i s/tmpuser/$REALUSER/ .ecryptfs/$REALUSER/.ecryptfs/Private.mnt

2. I had to create the $REALUSER home directory before
# ln -s /home/.ecryptfs/$REALUSER/.* $REALUSER/

- it had naturally disappeared after the mv

John Bigboote — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:26:05 +0000

Thank you very much! This is exactly what I was looking for!