Re: [PLUG] decrypting backup of encrypted home directory

Thanks, I was able to decypt and mount. It was a complete backup so I'm reimaging now. This time I'm using a separate home partition just to make reimaging easier later on down the line.

On Jan 25, 2014 2:35 PM, "Guo Yixuan" <culu.gyx@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I decided I want to reimage my aging dell netboot with Debian stable instead of the installed ubuntu because debian is a little bit lighter weight and this old machine is rather slow. I thought I would get some speedier performance with debian. I backed up my home directory onto my desktop using scp -r, but I had encrypted my home directory when I installed ubuntu. it seems when I copied the directoy with scp it is still encrypted:

michael@akira:~/laptop/michael$ ls -alh
total 40K
drwx------ 8 michael michael 4.0K Jan 24 23:04 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 michael michael 4.0K Jan 24 20:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 michael michael 4.0K Jan 24 20:13 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 3 michael michael 4.0K Jan 24 20:01 Documents
drwx------ 2 michael michael 4.0K Jan 24 23:04 .ecryptfs

You may want to try installing ecryptfs-utils. I guess most of the data is in .ecryptfs, or .Private.

This page seems to be helpful:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory

Cheers,

GUO Yixuan

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