Unencryption problems - HELP!!!

[Edgars Šmits]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, James Michael Fultz <croooow at gmail.com> wrote:
> * Edgars Šmits <ed.smits at gmail.com> [2010-02-10 10:30 +0000]:
>> I have totally screwed the pooch this time, I think. I installed the
>> alternate version of 64 bit Koala, and for some stupid reason chose to
>> "encrypt" my home directory. Of course, I didn't understand it at the
>> time, was in a hurry, and didn't pay any attention to what I was
>> doing...
>>
>> To make a long story short, my old laptop died but the hard drive was
>> OK. I mounted it as an external USB drive, wanted to access it to save
>> the data, nada, the home partition is encrypted. I tried to run
>> "/usr/bin/ecryptfs-mount-private", but error out with "ERROR:
>> Encrypted private directory is not setup properly"
>>
>> Am I hosed or can I somehow either break the encryption or else fix
>> the setup problem?
>>
>> Hoping for a quick answer other than, boy, you are really stupid<G>
>>
>> Ed the idiot - I back up everyone else's data, didn't back up my own....
>
> DON'T PANIC!
>
> Your data should still be intact.
>
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory#Recovering%20Your%20Mount%20Passphrase>
>
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory#Recovering%20Your%20Data%20Manually>
>

James, thanks for your advice. Luckily I didn't need it, took the hard
drive in the enclosure home and was able to boot off it with my own
personal laptop, so was able to "natively" access the home directory
to back it up to a non-encrypted drive.

No more encryption for me, at least until I know more about it!


Thanks


ED