Ubuntu Live DVD (14.04 or 14.10)  $ sudo ecryptfs-recover-private  INFO: Searching for encrypted private directories (this might take a while)... INFO: Found [/media/ubuntu/4aaa62c3-5a78-4054-b804-2476d6c4ec42/.ecryptfs/pacmo/.Private]. Try to recover this directory? [Y/n]: Y  INFO: Found your wrapped-passphrase Do you know your LOGIN passphrase? [Y/n] Y INFO: Enter your LOGIN passphrase... Passphrase: Error: Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session keyring failed [-5] Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs   Why ? I insert my login password exactly
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After entering the correct passphrase at the command ecryptfs-mount-private, I am getting this error:  torben@torben-nettop:~$ sudo ecryptfs-recover-private INFO: Searching for encrypted private directories (this might take a while)... INFO: Found [/media/0f417b42-11a0-4539-9cae-e11ce3b289c3/home/.ecryptfs/   torben/.Private]. Try to recover this directory? [Y/n]: y INFO: Enter your LOGIN passphrase... Passphrase:  Error: Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session keyring   failed [-5] Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs torben@torben-nettop:~$    Syslog has this information:  ecryptfs-insert-wrapped-passphrase-into-keyring:     Incorrect wrapping key for file [/home/torben/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase]   ecryptfs-insert-wrapped-passphrase-into-keyring: Error attempting to unwrap   passphrase from file [/home/torben/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase]; rc = [-5]   --> Given that I am absolutely sure that I am entering the correct passphrase, what can I do to fix this problem so that I can read the encrypted home folder?  Some background:   I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a new drive and I want to copy my home folder from the old drive, which is encrypted (I have the passphrase). With the help of , I followed  yesterday and successfully gained access to the encrypted home folder. This proves that my passphrase does indeed work.  I then started the machine on copying from the old encrypted home folder to the new unencrypted home folder and went to bed. When I returned to the computer, I saw that it had suspended itself :( and had not finished copying the folder.  I rebooted the computer, and removed the temporary /recovery folders, then followed the exact same steps again, but this is when I encountered the error given above. I tried this several times; always the same result. I am absolutely sure that I am typing the passphrase correct.
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Today I was told a tale by a Unix trainer where the root password got leaked to the students, and one of the fellas removed the execute permission from /usr/bin/chmod itself. How do you recover chmod in this case and make it executable again? Let's say getting it from an external source or recompiling it is not a preferable option, is there some smart hack that can recover this chmod itself?   Note that this happened a long time ago and I'm not looking for a solution for some current problem, just curious about what ways Unix provides us around such an issue.
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I would like to password protect or encrypt a directory and all the files within it (for the whole directory tree below it). I do not want to bother the whole home directory, I want a specific directory with some files and folders in it. I would like to be able to encrypt the directory or decrypt it using a password. Command line would be nicest to use. I don't want to have to create a new file as an encrypted version and then, delete the previous ones which are the non-encrypted version.
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I recently installed 11.10 on a fresh disk using entire disk encryption.  Can someone tell me how secure the encryption algorithm is?  Has there been any recent breaches with said algorithm?  I use a 36 character random passphrase so I know thats not a weak link.  What are the chances my client's data could be compromised if the hard drive was stolen?
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Recently one of my friends came over to my place, within 15 minutes he hacked my account using a Live CD and reset the password in front of me. I was baffled to see such a thing. Please guide me to prevent such a future attempt using a Live CD.
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I opted to encrypt my Home during install, and now I would like to access my data from a LiveCD, unfortunately I'm having trouble following these . I get the error "mounting eCryptfs: [-2] No such file or directory"
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I am using Ubuntu 14.04.  I ran in terminal sudo apt-get update. Then I rebooted the system. And now I see:   ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxxx does not exist. Dropping to a shell initramfs:_   I can't boot up LIVE Ubuntu from USB flash drive. Yes, I double checked BIOS setup and the USB flash drive is OK and runs on another machine. Right now I am going to buy a  DVD and burn a Live DVD from another laptop.  sudo blkid gives me:   /dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"   /dev/sda1: UUID="xxxx" TYPE="ext4"    /dev/sr0: LABEL="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS i386" TYPE="iso960"      /etc/fstab has the same UUID="xxxx" and there is a line with:   errors=remount-ro 0      I tried using boot-repair but I still can't log in to Ubuntu.  I don't want to reinstall Ubuntu, because I have a lot of data there.  Do you have any advice how this can be solved?
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I previously had been using TrueCrypt, but recently re-installed Ubuntu and used 12.10's full disk encryption option (re-installed for other reasons). I never got any choice in how it did that. I don't know what cipher is used or the key size, or anything besides the passphrase really. Where can I find details about this sda5_crypt?  Edit: Seeing this mistake is humorous, but for those curious, sda5 refers to the hard drive and partition, not the encryption system.
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I don't want to reset the password nor delete it. I need to know the password. What can be done? Specific software for that? Easier way of getting the password from inside a non-admin account through Windows itself or reboot is needed? Thanks  EDIT: Also, where are the password files stored? If I get in the system files with another bootable OS, I can read those and get the pwd from it.   EDIT: I don't want to reinstall Windows, I want the password.
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I am working on our Debian server on which we have a Raid drive encrypted with 2 devices. I did this around 1.5 years back and have never rebooted since. Now, we want to reboot for some reasons, but I have to make sure that the password I have is the correct one, or we will be stuck.   How can we verify the password for an encrypted-raid? Thank you.  Raid details :    mdadm --detail /dev/md0    /dev/md0:         Version : 1.2   Creation Time : Thu Feb 11 14:43:40 2016      Raid Level : raid1      Array Size : 1953382336 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)   Used Dev Size : 1953382336 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)    Raid Devices : 2   Total Devices : 2     Persistence : Superblock is persistent      Update Time : Fri Mar 10 10:37:42 2017           State : clean   Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2  Failed Devices : 0   Spare Devices : 0             Name : HOSTNAME:0  (local to host HOSTNAME)            UUID : 5c450558:44a2b1e9:83cb4361:9c74df8e          Events : 49      Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State        0       8        1        0      active sync   /dev/sda1        1       8       17        1      active sync   /dev/sdb1   Thank you.   Update  dmsetup table --showkeys CryptVol: 0 Large_Number crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 RANDOM_TEXT  0 253:0 4096 RaidVG-LVMVol: 0 Large_Number linear 9:0 2048
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When I boot system in to recovery mode from GRUB menu, I can get in to all powerful root without entering any password, thus insecure.  How I can secure this and ensure that a password is asked every time I attempt to access root in recovery mode?
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Few days back I have installed ecryptfs, created a private directory using it. Now my Ubuntu login became super slow. I have tried removing ecryptfs from Synaptic. I found It, it can not be deleted that way. Somewhere I have read about this command  ecryptfs-setup-private --undo   But this command displays a rather confusing list of commands on terminal. I don't want to mess up my installation, neither want to loose my administrator account.  Now my question is, how can I safely remove /home/user/Private (.Private) and remove ecryptfs encryption ?
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i used this command to decrypt my file  gpg -d myfile.gpg   it asked me for passphrase when i entered it showed me the content of the file  now when i run the command again it did not ask me the passphrase and directly decrypted the file   how can i reduce the passphrase remember time.  Thanks  Is there any way to do this through command line or every from a software.
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I am installing Ubuntu 13 with full encryption but why am I given the option to also encrypt my home folder. Surely the home folder is covered under the system encryption? I'm confused.
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A few months ago I set full disk encryption during installation of Ubuntu 17.10. Now, I've decided to upgrade. The upgrade ran to the end without any problems. However, after reboot I am not able to log into my encrypted disk.  Where can be the problem? I am 100% sure I press the "right keys" on the keyboard, but technically I don't know what I am writing because of "*" characters and maybe after upgrade my keyboard layout changed. I use some characters which might be somewhere else on the keyboard. What language is default after upgrade?   By the way, I've already tried Caps-lock, but still no luck.  Help will be really appreciated. I am not a fan of installing my system and all backups over and over again.
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I had installed Cryptkeeper in Ubuntu 16.04 lts. I have upgraded Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. After I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 , I completely lost my file which were encrypted through Cryptkeeper in Ubuntu 16.04. There are only folders where I kept my files. Now when I try to install Cryptkeeper in Ubuntu 18.04 through terminal it says  E: Package 'cryptkeeper' has no installation candidate   Does anyone know how to bring back my files without degrading Ubuntu to 16.04 LTS? Or, does anyone know of another file encryption program, as easy to install and use as Cryptkeeper, that will work reliably on Ubuntu 18.04 ?
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I have an extra ext4 formatted partition which I would like to ecrypt with ecryptfs. I have chosen not to go for home directory ecryption and having a encrypted private directory also hasn't helped me.   So, the remaining option for me is to encrypt the extra partition. So, I want to know what is the best way to achieve this. The drive should get mounted when I log in. And I should be able to move my Documents and other important folders in the home directory to the encrypted drive, and symlink them back to the home directory. As I save some passwords in firefox, should I move the hidden firefox folder in the home directory to the encrypted drive?