Encrypt home directory after install
The following method could be use to encrypt a users /home directory after installing Trisquel.
The package needed is ecryptfs-utils. To install this package use the following command apt-get install ecryptfs-utils cryptsetup
0) First of all, make sure the user is logged out of the system, else the files in his /home directory might be locked.
You need to run this as another user with sudo privileges or as root.
1) Execute the command ecryptfs-migrate-home -u TheUserName
This command will migrate or encrypt the users /home directory.
2) login as the user - TheUserName.
The user needs to login before a reboot, this to finish off the migration of the users /home directory
3) Execute the command ecryptfs-setup-swap
This command will encrypt your swap directory.
4) Delete the backup which was created by ecryptfs-migrate-home script.
Usually you find this under /home/TheUserName.SomeRandomNumber
5) As the user which has got it's /home encrypted, run the following command ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase
This to record a randomly generated mount passphrase.
