Comments on: Encrypted home in Ubuntu 8.10 http://pupeno.com/blog/encrypted-home-in-ubuntu-8-10/ A bit of this, a bit of that and a lot about computers Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:49:35 +0100 hourly 1 By: Pablo http://pupeno.com/blog/encrypted-home-in-ubuntu-8-10/comment-page-1/#comment-3899 Pablo Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:37:19 +0000 328#comment-3899 JD: Yes, upgrading when doing this was always a delicate process. There was a change of format from ini-like to xml of the config file in an upgrade. And besides, Ubuntu 9.10 now supports encrypting /home on the special installation option, everyone should use that instead and consider this tutorial obsolete. JD: Yes, upgrading when doing this was always a delicate process. There was a change of format from ini-like to xml of the config file in an upgrade. And besides, Ubuntu 9.10 now supports encrypting /home on the special installation option, everyone should use that instead and consider this tutorial obsolete.

]]> By: JD http://pupeno.com/blog/encrypted-home-in-ubuntu-8-10/comment-page-1/#comment-3893 JD Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:13:46 +0000 328#comment-3893 Pablo, Great tutorial, however I would not use this method on Ubuntu 9.10 until it can be investigated further. I can no longer log in from putty or at the machine. My guess is that the problem lies in automatically mounting the drive at login. Pablo,
Great tutorial, however I would not use this method on Ubuntu 9.10 until it can be investigated further. I can no longer log in from putty or at the machine. My guess is that the problem lies in automatically mounting the drive at login.

]]> By: Victor http://pupeno.com/blog/encrypted-home-in-ubuntu-8-10/comment-page-1/#comment-2300 Victor Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:57:12 +0000 328#comment-2300 Hi, Pablo! Thank you for the post! Everything works great on Jaunty. But recently I installed Karmic Koala, followed the same procedure (except for creating the disk - I used the existing one), and - ups - can't even log in, log in window says: "error initiating conversation with authentication system - general failure". Remarkably, I can mount this volume manually in Koala. Do you have any idea what's wrong? If you use Karmic and LUKS, can you share your experience? Thanks in advance. Hi, Pablo!
Thank you for the post! Everything works great on Jaunty. But recently I installed Karmic Koala, followed the same procedure (except for creating the disk – I used the existing one), and – ups – can’t even log in, log in window says: “error initiating conversation with authentication system – general failure”. Remarkably, I can mount this volume manually in Koala. Do you have any idea what’s wrong? If you use Karmic and LUKS, can you share your experience? Thanks in advance.

]]> By: Pablo http://pupeno.com/blog/encrypted-home-in-ubuntu-8-10/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Pablo Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:43:07 +0000 328#comment-67 lapa, What you need to do is create a /home2, copy everything from /home into /home2 in the same way I explain how to do it at the end of the tutorial, unmount /home and remove it from /etc/fstab. Move /home2 to /home. Reboot to be sure that everything is working as expected. And then you can follow this tutorial. If you don't have enough space in / to have everything from /home in /home2, then you'll need external storage to do the move. If you are using Ubuntu 9.04 or latter, I think they already have some nice encryption system for your whole home, so you may want to look into that before you even start with my tutorial. It's quite possible my tutorial is obsoleted and deprecated. lapa,

What you need to do is create a /home2, copy everything from /home into /home2 in the same way I explain how to do it at the end of the tutorial, unmount /home and remove it from /etc/fstab. Move /home2 to /home. Reboot to be sure that everything is working as expected. And then you can follow this tutorial. If you don’t have enough space in / to have everything from /home in /home2, then you’ll need external storage to do the move.

If you are using Ubuntu 9.04 or latter, I think they already have some nice encryption system for your whole home, so you may want to look into that before you even start with my tutorial. It’s quite possible my tutorial is obsoleted and deprecated.

]]> By: lapa http://pupeno.com/blog/encrypted-home-in-ubuntu-8-10/comment-page-1/#comment-65 lapa Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:57:51 +0000 328#comment-65 hi, i would like to follow your guide exactly, but I have already set up a separate partition and set it as /home. can I revert this somehow to follow your guide step-by-step? thanks for your geeky input. hi,

i would like to follow your guide exactly, but I have already set up a separate partition and set it as /home.

can I revert this somehow to follow your guide step-by-step?

thanks for your geeky input.

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