Hi Neil,

The first time I was and realized that being logged in had tainted the
test.

I rebooted the machine and then logged in to it a second time - this
time remotely - no problems.

Cheers,
J.J.

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 07:17 -0700, Neil B wrote:
> 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.
>         >
>         >
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