Re: easiest way to encrypt existing home dir?

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Neal Becker wrote:

> I'm running f27 with everything on one drive.  /home is 1 btrfs subvolume
> and / is another btrfs subvolume.
> 
> I want to move my /home to encryption.  One possibility seems to be to use
> ecryptfs.  I tried creating a test user, and the following:
> https://cloud-ninja.org/2014/04/05/fedora-encrypting-your-home-directory/
> (following "easy way" instructions).
> 
> This didn't do anything AFAICT, the test user's files still appear to be
> unencrypted, and I don't see any ecryptfs mount.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Is ecryptfs the way to go here or something else?
> 
> Thanks,
> Neal

Playing around some more, I did get ecryptfs-migrate-home to work for my 
test user.  I see that the home dir is accessible by other users (e.g. root) 
if the test user is logged in, but not when he is logged out.  Not the 
strongest security, but maybe adequate for some uses.
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