On 2015-04-01 09:52:49, Marc de Verdelhan wrote: > Hi there, Hello! Sorry to hear about the trouble you're having. > > I made a huge mistake and I need some help. > > I was running Linux Mint 17 (based on Ubuntu 14.04) with an encrypted > home directory (using eCryptfs). /home and / were on separated > partitions. > Last week I replaced Mint by Debian. I formatted the / partition and > kept the /home one. Now I can't decrypt my data. :/ Did you record the randomly generated mount passphrase? After you set up an encrypted home directory in Ubuntu, you receive a pop up dialogue box informing you to record the mount passphrase and keep it somewhere safe. If you followed that advice, we can save a lot of time debugging the issue below. Tyler > > So I installed the ecryptfs-utils package. > > "ecryptfs-mount-private" returns: > Error: Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session > keyring failed [-5] > Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs > ERROR: Your passphrase is incorrect > > "/var/log/syslog" contains: > ecryptfs-insert-wrapped-passphrase-into-keyring: Incorrect wrapping > key for file [/home/login/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase] > ecryptfs-insert-wrapped-passphrase-into-keyring: Error attempting to > unwrap passphrase from file > [/home/login/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase]; rc = [-5] > > "ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase > /home/.ecryptfs/login/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase" returns: > Error: Unwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session > keyring failed [-5] > Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs > > To be sure I reinstalled the original Linux Mint on the / partition, > using the same login:password as before my misfortune. Same results. > I'm ABSOLUTELY sure that I'm using the same login and password than > last week. I installed Linux Mint 17 on June 2014; the ecryptfs-utils > version should have been "104-0ubuntu1". > > So questions are: > 1) What happened? Did I erase a configuration file I shouldn't? I > would like to understand what operation occurred to be in that > unpleasant situation? > > 2) What are my options? It may involve some C development if needed. > According to you, is there a way to brute force something? Or a more > intelligent solution, starting with sit down, have a tea and think. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading. > > Marc > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ecryptfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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