Hey John, Just curious. Were you logged on to the box while also connecting to it remotely?
Cheers! ~Neil B. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:09 PM, John Jardine <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I lost a drive today and that prompted a new install. I chose Ubuntu > 10.10 x64 Desktop to check it out. > > I configured it to have an encrypted home directory - not full disk > encryption. > > I can reboot this machine and then ssh to it successfully. This is > counter to your experience. I can't explain what or why this is > different though. > > I have not bothered to check the directory by booting from another disk > and checking it out - I'll leave that for the paranoid:) > > I did pickup on one part of the install when it gave instructions on > access without logging in. I was asked to configure a secure passphrase > to use to manually access my home directory. It said to use a tool > 'ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase'. > > I haven't messed with it yet - everything is still at the stage where > "it just works" so I'm loath to fix that:) > > Cheers, > J.J. > > > On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 21:59 -0700, shawn wrote: > > I tried the encrypted home directory and ran into problems with SSH to > > that box via ssh keys. Which makes sense - the keys are encrypted and > > can't be read until you login. But you can't login without the keys... > > Guess it would make sense for a desktop that will be unlikely to be > > connected TO via ssh. Either that or I missed a step somewhere. > > > > I'm running Kubuntu 10.10 now with an encrypted drive. The install > > process was pretty straight forward and everything is working as > > expected (with a new *buntu install - sound issues, data migration, > > etc.) I still want to encrypt a drive manually from the command line > > just to learn the details, but the docs I've seen are old (2007ish or > > earlier) and make a lot of assumptions about base knowledge making the > > docs difficult to read. > > > > Shawn > > > > On 10-12-05 04:42 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Shawn<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I'm looking for any decent links/how-to's for full disk encryption. > > > For truecrypt > > > http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/ > > > > > > Truecrypt also has an option for a secret hidden OS > > > > > > On Ubuntu you can do it at install if you use the alternate install > > > CD. I used this a couple of times and it worked well. The encrypted > > > home directory is what I use now. The one issue is that if you have a > > > slight issue with your hard drive, and I mean slight, all the data is > > > pretty much toast. It does not even have to be a bad disk, just a > > > wrong bit flipped at the wrong time which happens more than you think > > > on modern hard drives. If done right data recovery is not possible. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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