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How to stop using built-in home directory encryption?
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http://askubuntu.com/questions/4950/how-to-stop-using-built-in-home-directory-encryption | |
1 Backup the home directory while you are logged in: | |
sudo cp -rp /home/user /home/user.backup | |
[Check that your home backup has everything!!!] | |
2 switch to using root (another user account with sudo privileges would work equally well). | |
3 Delete your home directory rm -rf /home/user | |
4 Before removing the packages ecryptfs-utils and libecryptfs0 would work, I needed to remove /home/.ecryptfs/<myusername>. (It complained that ecryptfs-utils was in use.) | |
5 Remove the packages apt-get remove ecryptfs-utils libecryptfs0 | |
6 Restore your home directory mv /home/user.backup /home/user | |
7 reboot | |
8 Remove any of those .Private .ecryptfs folders rm -rf ~/.Private rm -rf ~/.ecryptfs |
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