ECryptfs: Difference between revisions

imported>Minion3665
Add pkgs to the ecryptfs systemPackages expression
imported>Nobodyinperson
Remove hint on ecryptfs-helper (pulls in insecure Python2 and is not needed for home directory migration) and update home migration instructions
 
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   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
     ecryptfs
     ecryptfs
    ecryptfs-helper
   ];
   ];
}</syntaxhighlight>
}</syntaxhighlight>
<code>ecryptfs-helper</code> contains utilities to facilitate e.g. encrypting your home folder, mounting it as user, and data recovery.


<code>man ecryptfs-setup-private</code> describes how to encrypt your home folder.
<code>man ecryptfs-migrate-home</code> describes how to encrypt your home folder. The TL;DR is that you need to: log out, log in as root, <code>modprobe ecryptfs</code> if needed, kill all processes that still access the home folder you want to migrate (check with <code>lsof /home/YOURUSERNAME</code>), wait for it to finish, then run <code>ecryptfs-migrate-home -u YOURUSERNAME</code>, then log in as your migrated user before rebooting.


To automatically mount your private folder on login with <code>PAM</code>, add this to your <code>config</code>:
To automatically mount your private folder on login with <code>PAM</code>, add this to your <code>config</code>:
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<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">{
<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">{
   security.pam.enableEcryptfs = true;
   security.pam.enableEcryptfs = true;
}</syntaxhighlight>
Don't forget to also load the <code>ecryptfs</code> kernel module on boot as well in this case:
<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">{
  boot.kernelModules = ["ecryptfs"];
}</syntaxhighlight>
}</syntaxhighlight>