sebeto
November 5th, 2009, 08:55 PM
Hi everybody!
Today, I just made a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic (I was on Jaunty).
I've got three partitions:
One for /
One for the swap
One for /home
As I usually do, I told the software to format only / , not /home, so that I could keep all the data in /home
Then, I checked the option to have an encrypted /home folder.
The installation was fine, everything works very well. But I checked by launching the Live CD again, and it appears that my /home folder isn't encrypted. I guess that as it was already there it didn't get encrypted.
Is there any way for me to encrypt it so that it gets unencrypted when I log in, so that it would make the same effect than if it had worked when I installed it?
I know that there are posts about encrypting the /home folder on the forum, but I'd really like to make it as if it had been done on the install. I wanna be sure that I don't do anything bad...
Today, I just made a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic (I was on Jaunty).
I've got three partitions:
One for /
One for the swap
One for /home
As I usually do, I told the software to format only / , not /home, so that I could keep all the data in /home
Then, I checked the option to have an encrypted /home folder.
The installation was fine, everything works very well. But I checked by launching the Live CD again, and it appears that my /home folder isn't encrypted. I guess that as it was already there it didn't get encrypted.
Is there any way for me to encrypt it so that it gets unencrypted when I log in, so that it would make the same effect than if it had worked when I installed it?
I know that there are posts about encrypting the /home folder on the forum, but I'd really like to make it as if it had been done on the install. I wanna be sure that I don't do anything bad...