Ubuntu: Restore your encrypted home directory
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What you need
- A running Ubuntu
- Access to the disk from which you want to restore
- Your user password of the system you want to restore from OR the passphrase you might have recorded earlier
How it works
Mount the disk or partition with the encrypted home on it
It can be done with Nautilus or on the text console. Change to the directory with the encrypted home which might look like that:
user@ubuntu:/media/my_disk/home/.ecryptfs/username$
Optional: Get the passphrase
The passphrase is not the user password. It is a random key, stored in the file wrapped-passphrase and encrypted with the user´s password. Unwrap it:
user@ubuntu:/media/my_disk/home/.ecryptfs/username$ ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase .ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase Passphrase: 2dac479b16e0efd2ac7b8e9e7690f8f7
