NAME¶
ecryptfs-recover-private - find and mount any encrypted private
directories
SYNOPSIS¶
ecryptfs-recover-private [--rw] [encrypted private dir]
DESCRIPTION¶
This utility is intended to help eCryptfs recover data from their encrypted home
or encrypted private partitions. It is useful to run this from a LiveISO or a
recovery image. It must run under
sudo(8) or with root permission, in
order to search the filesystem and perform the mounts.
The program can take a target encrypted directory on the command line. If
unspecified, the utility will search the entire system looking for encrypted
private directories, as configured by
ecryptfs-setup-private(1).
If an encrypted directory and a
wrapped-passphrase file are found, the
user is prompted for the login (wrapping) passphrase, the keys are inserted
into the keyring, and the data is decrypted and mounted.
If no
wrapped-passphrase file is found, the user will be prompted for
their mount passphrase. This passphrase is typically 32 characters of
[0-9a-f]. All users are prompted to urgently record this randomly generated
passphrase when they first setup their encrypted private directory.
The destination mount of the decrypted data is a temporary directory, in the
form of
/tmp/ecryptfs.XXXXXXXX.
By default, the mount will be read-only. To mount with read and write
permission, add the --rw parameter.
SEE ALSO¶
ecryptfs-setup-private(1),
sudo(8)
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/mounting-your-encrypted-home-from.html
- http://ecryptfs.org/
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AUTHOR¶
This manpage was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for
Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy,
distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General
Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation.
On Debian and Ubuntu systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.