On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:10:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all: I've considered several options to secure my data. The ideal > solution would be to encrypt my home folder. I use Kubuntu Feisty > 7.04. I understand that ecryptfs is buit into the kernel and I've > downloaded the ecryptfs utilities. I've read the README and did some > research on Google, but I really can't wrap my brain around > this. Has anyone written a step by step how-to on this?
Assuming you've install the ecryptfs-utils package, as root, run: mount -t ecryptfs /home/user /home/user Then log in as the user. Make sure only eCryptfs-encrypted files are in /home/user when you do that. That's the easy answer. There are several other things you could do, depending on what kind of user experience you are after. For instance, in the IBM Open Client Linux distro, a ~/Confidential/ directory is mounted automatically when the user logs in, using his login passphrase to unwrap a mount passphrase, with the help of a PAM module. You could play a few games to get that to work on the actual home directory (i.e., leave .bash_profile unencrypted and use plaintext passthrough mount mode). Mike
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