Whew... saved by the skin of teeth. The grub2 bootloader of my computer got corrupt. I was not able to boot into the computer and all was lost. For security reasons, I set up LVM with full disk encryption. Thereafter, each user's home folder was further encrypted with ecryptfs (the default you get when you … Continue reading Recover encrypted ecryptfs home folder from encrypted dm-crypt luks disk volume
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Add new user with encrypted home folder in Ubuntu
By default, Ubuntu 12.04 does not allow you to add a new user with an encrypted home directory using the GUI user manager. To add a user with encrypted home folder, do following: Start up the terminal on your system $ sudo adduser --encrypt-home username <enter> where username is the user ID of the user … Continue reading Add new user with encrypted home folder in Ubuntu
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