Wednesday, March 27, 2019

password - Set encrypted home passphrase




I just reinstalled Ubuntu, Natty. I set to use encrypted home, but once the system was running, I was asked to define the encrypted home passphrase. Out of haste, I skipped that, but now I want to define the passphrase but I couldn't find out how (despite how trivial this sounds).



I set my /home to a specific partition, so I may reinstall Ubuntu without losing my data whenever I need it, and I guess this is the passphare that I'd need to supply to recover my data on a new install, am I right?



Please, how can I define/change my passphrase?



You can do that by running this command at terminal:



ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase 



The information you missed when you skiped was:



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