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Please use ecryptfs-recover-private: * http://blo...

2011-06-12T12:51:35.329-05:00

Please use ecryptfs-recover-private:
* http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/04/introducing-ecryptfs-recover-private.html

Hi, I executed the second command(mount -o bind /d...

2011-06-11T14:17:48.536-05:00

Hi,
I executed the second command(mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev) from instructions given above. It says: can not create directory 'dev': Read only file system.
How to get data back from encrypted /home in 11.04?

Thanks, works perfectly for me on Ubuntu 10.04.

2011-02-06T09:03:44.773-06:00

Thanks, works perfectly for me on Ubuntu 10.04.

Thank you for saving my ass.

2011-01-13T19:27:22.254-06:00

Thank you for saving my ass.

I wrote a guide on this so I hope this will help o...

2010-12-23T19:27:12.346-06:00

I wrote a guide on this so I hope this will help other people.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory#Live%20CD%20method%20of%20opening%20a%20encrypted%20home%20directory

This website has some good information. http://g...

2010-12-12T01:34:56.075-06:00

This website has some good information.

http://goshawknest.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/how-to-recover-crypted-home-directory-in-ubuntu/

Gracias :-)

2010-12-03T19:49:46.027-06:00

Gracias :-)

if you get ecryptfs-mount-private mount operation...

2010-11-23T07:44:46.071-06:00

if you get
ecryptfs-mount-private mount operation not permitted

it is probably because you used the automount from the live cd and did not do a manual mount.

took me while to figure this one out....

Just a word to THANK YOU! I followed your instruct...

2010-11-16T03:18:22.870-06:00

Just a word to THANK YOU!
I followed your instructions and could recover a backuped home directory after a system fail and a reinstall.
You just rock :)

hi dustin, i am working on ubuntu 1.0.04. all my d...

2010-10-11T09:51:05.298-05:00

hi dustin,
i am working on ubuntu 1.0.04.
all my data on my desktop and my /home/suyog has disappeared , and i get this file Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop
..how to resolve this ?
and i followed the above procedure but i again got a error regarding login passphrase

suyog@ubuntu:~$ ecryptfs-mount-private
Enter your login passphrase:
Error: Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session keyring failed [-5]
Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs
ERROR: Your passphrase is incorrect
Enter your login passphrase:

suyog@ubuntu:~$ ecryptfs-mount-private Enter your ...

2010-10-11T09:44:22.138-05:00

suyog@ubuntu:~$ ecryptfs-mount-private
Enter your login passphrase:
Error: Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session keyring failed [-5]
Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs
ERROR: Your passphrase is incorrect
Enter your login passphrase:

kickass, thanks.

2010-09-09T01:31:27.830-05:00

kickass, thanks.

THANK YOU THIS SAVES MY BUTT!!!!!!

2010-08-23T22:46:24.844-05:00

THANK YOU THIS SAVES MY BUTT!!!!!!

you guys might want to read on this https://help.u...

2010-08-17T18:48:37.788-05:00

you guys might want to read on this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory

It's the thing you are warned to write down so...

2010-07-13T05:35:14.893-05:00

It's the thing you are warned to write down somewhere safe when you installed your system. In case you were a bad boy and did not do so, execute "ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase" in the terminal.
Yes you need to do that from within the installation you want to mount. So if you lost your installation you might be in bad luck.

Hey this is what i did when i first installed ubun...

2010-07-13T00:10:11.411-05:00

Hey this is what i did when i first installed ubuntu like 5 years ago!

where can i find passphrase: i only know login nam...

2010-06-27T02:13:37.434-05:00

where can i find passphrase:
i only know login name and password

why so damn complicated? I didn't get your des...

2010-06-18T17:29:40.524-05:00

why so damn complicated? I didn't get your description but figured out how to do this the easy way:

#!/bin/bash
# 1. paste home-passphrase 2 times (use unwrap.. to get this)
# 2. aes/16/no plaintext passthrough
# 3. filename enc yes
# 4. enter the pair to the 1st key, which is the second line
MOUNTEDFOLDER="decryptedHome"
ENCED_HOME_PARTITION="/media/oldHome"

cd /mnt
sudo mkdir $MOUNTEDFOLDER

sudo ecryptfs-add-passphrase --fnek
sudo mount -t ecryptfs $ENCED_HOME_PARTITION/.ecryptfs/YOURUSERNAME/.Private $MOUNTEDFOLDER/
ls $MOUNTEDFOLDER

Is there a way to do this from Windows?

2010-06-16T13:26:01.475-05:00

Is there a way to do this from Windows?

hi dustin, I tried to follow the procedure but I g...

2010-06-09T12:22:18.951-05:00

hi dustin, I tried to follow the procedure but I get stuck here:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot /mnt
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

i feel like i'm missing something.
thanks in advance

luke

And one really "excellent" way to get yo...

2010-05-05T11:01:14.241-05:00

And one really "excellent" way to get yourself into this state is to use superuser privileges to change your password. This can happen if you are the type who keeps multiple passwords in sync and some other place has a more aggressive notion of password security than does Ubuntu. However, if your Ubuntu installation prohibits password changes in quick succession, and if you are an antique UNIX hacker, what do you do? You use superuser privileges to force the password change, what else??? Unfortunately, this brute-force method apparently fails to update ecryptfs's idea of what your password is.

The trick in that case is to use Dustin's excellent workaround above, but give your intermediate password (the one that was deemed too weak by some other password-accepting facility) to ecryptfs-mount-private.

Thanks for the workaround, Dustin!!! Saved me a huge amount of time!!!

This guide was also useful for me: http://www.kaij...

2010-05-05T02:48:54.373-05:00

This guide was also useful for me: http://www.kaijanmaki.net/2009/10/26/recovering-files-from-ecryptfs-encrypted-home/

To reiterate what is stated just below "POST ...

2010-02-22T12:17:27.869-06:00

To reiterate what is stated just below "POST A COMMENT" ...

Please do not use blog comments for support requests! Blog comments do not scale well to this effect.

Instead, please use Launchpad for Bugs and Questions.
* bugs.launchpad.net
* answers.launchpad.net

Thanks,
:-Dustin

... To be more clearly? [ until this point all ri...

2010-02-22T12:15:08.875-06:00

... To be more clearly?

[ until this point all right ]
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot /mnt
root@ubuntu:/# <-- answer
root@ubuntu:/# su - rob
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo ".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

rob@ubuntu:/$ <-- answer
rob@ubuntu:/$ ecryptfs-add-passphrase --fnek
Passphrase: <-- yes, i have my passphrase
Inserted auth tok with sig [ee9a16399aeb0e85] into the user session keyring
Inserted auth tok with sig [9a9c1f340c8ec93e] into the user session keyring
rob@ubuntu:/$ ecryptfs-mount-private
ERROR: Encrypted private directory is not setup properly
rob@ubuntu:/$

thanxs

rob (with ubuntu 9.10)

Hi, Dustin. When I go to "su - User" it ...

2010-02-22T12:02:52.720-06:00

Hi, Dustin.
When I go to "su - User" it responds "No directory, logging in with HOME=/". If I continue with ecryptfs-mount-private, then I receive a message: "ERROR: Encrypted private directory is not setup properly". There is some trick here...

Could you please illuminate it?

rob