[fsug-calicut] Re: encrypted fs in ubuntu server

  • From: "stranger in black....." <gnuise@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: fsug-tvm <ilug-tvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, fsug-calicut <fsug-calicut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:49:32 +0530

after changing the login password to the old one, the home folder is
decrypting automatically.......
So how could i change the password for the user?



Junise Safvan
mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.gnuise.co.cc
www.fsugcalicut.org


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:33 PM, stranger in black.....
<gnuise@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I installed ubuntu server 9.04 in a system with encrypted home
> directory.... The pass-phrase and login password were same. But after
> completing the installation, the client asked me to change the login
> password. But after that, when ever the system is restarted, the
> /home/username/ folder is encrypted. So cant login via gdm. The thing I done
> for the decrypting the home is by going to the text mode by ctrl+alt+F1 and
> login. When tried to list the file and folders in the folder using *ls*, I
> got only two files, *README.txt and "Access Your Private Data"*. I
> decrypted the home folder using a command given inside the *README.txt *(I
> dont remember the command now) with the help of the pass-phrase which is the
> old login password and restarting the gdm. But the action is temporary. When
> ever the system is restarted, again the home folder is encrypted. How to
> make it *permenent*?
>
>
>
>
> Junise Safvan
> mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.gnuise.co.cc
> www.fsugcalicut.org
>

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