Move encrypted home folder to new PC

[Colin Law]

On 22 October 2014 12:48, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
> Judging from their own statement, the encryption is not username dependent:
>
> eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise cryptographic stacked filesystem
> for Linux. eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each
> file, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be
> decrypted with the proper key in the Linux kernel keyring. There is no need
> to keep track of any additional information aside from what is already in
> the encrypted file itself. You may think of eCryptfs as a sort of "gnupg as
> a filesystem".
>
> And this seems to concur:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/124174/how-do-i-move-my-encrypted-home-to-a-new-computer
>
> So all you need to do is create the user and chown all the encrypted files,
> while the user is not logged in.

Thanks Patrick, I had searched but obviously not used the right
keywords.  That worked perfectly.

Colin

>
>
> Best regards,
> Patrick
>
>
>
> On 2014-10-22 11:52, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> I am moving to a new PC after the lightning induced demise of my old
>> one.  I have installed Ubuntu 14.10 and restored /home from the old
>> PC, and all is well, except that one of the users has an encrypted
>> home folder.  /home/user and home/.ecryptfs/user have been restored ok
>> but now I somehow need to setup a new user to access the encrypted
>> data.  I have the mount password.  Is there any way of doing this
>> other than manually recovering the data and copying to a new user?
>>
>> Colin
>
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