[sllug-members]: Encrypted Home Directories

[Corey Edwards]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:15 -0700, Morgan Terry wrote:
> Does anyone know what the best way to set up encrypted home
> directories is? I want to do so on my laptop to give my data some
> protection in case the machine is lost or stolen. From my research so
> far, there seem to be several methods used (encrypted loopback,
> dmcrypt, encfs, etc)
> 
> Has anyone here tried doing anything like this? What method(s) did you
> use and what were your impressions of it/them?

I converted my $HOME to encrypted a few weeks back for the same reasons
you cite. It really wasn't too hard. I planned ahead and used LVM for my
disk so creating the new partition was a piece of cake.

I couldn't find the original article I followed, but this one looks
similar. It might be the one, who knows.

        http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2006/12/06/245/

The only problems I've seen so far is that it doesn't prompt me for my
passphrase at boot. That page there references a bug in Edgy, which I'm
running. I'm going to try that workaround out and see if it helps.

Corey