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I got locked out form my old pc with Linux Mint 20 on it that my mum's using. It didn't recognize my password anymore, even though I was 100% sure it was the right one... Indeed the login screen doesn'...
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I am sorry I did not find any related topic matching here. I have weird installation behaviour right after I installed my Linux Mint 22 in my existing partition table structure: Luks Encrypted ...
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I am trying to add a printer manually via the CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631/admin/) but it is not working. I see that when I click "Add printer", a username/password dialog pops ...
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I have a dual boot laptop with Windows and Linux mint. In the Linux Mint partition I encrypted the file storage and this has been working fine for 4+ years, it decrypts on log in. Yesterday some ...
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I've managed to mount "old" ecryptfs home folder with sudo mount -t ecryptfs [SRC DIR] [DST DIR]. It was failing for ecryptfs-recover-private with mount: No such file or directory and with ...
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I recently had a login loop that kept sending me back to the login screen no matter how many times I entered the correct password. I decided to login accessing the terminal directly by pressing cntrl+...
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Guys help me understand this! I'm using eCryptfs with mount command to encrypt a single folder. In first time for setup the volume I run: mount --types ecryptfs /path/to/.private /path/to/.private So ...
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I installed Ubuntu and encrypted the home folder. Then I forgot the login password and tried to change it: from the recovery mode, I've selected the root shell and at the prompt I entered: mount -rw -...
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I have recently built a brand new computer and decided to install Linux Mint on it and I have recently realized that I only have about 730GB of free space out of the 1TB SSD I installed. After some ...
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OS: Linux Mint 20.3 I usually get this error whenever I do sudo apt update. dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libecryptfs1' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed But it ...
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My home directory is encrypted with ecryptfs. I wanted to try some things that required reinstalling my system, so I backed up to a flash drive with this command: sudo tar cf backup.tar.zstd --one-...
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I have an encrypted directory on my USB drive that I encrypted using ecryptfs on an old computer. I know the passphrase I used at the time to encrypt this directory but I cant seem to decrypt it on a ...
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After an update and a reboot, my ecryptfs home directory in Linux is failing to decrypt and mount on boot. It caused a bit of a panic, as Mint seemed entirely reinstalled from scratch (but the ...
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I am using ecryptFS for encryption of data on Linux. Is there a way on Linux to decrypt the data without mounting the encrypted folder?
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I forgot the password to my admin account in ubuntu, I googled how to reset ubuntu admin password, then did the following steps from the tutorial that I found online Enter Recovery Drop to root shell ...
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