NAME

       ecryptfs-recover-private - find and mount any encrypted private directories

SYNOPSIS

       ecryptfs-recover-private [--rw] [encrypted private dir]

DESCRIPTION

       This  utility  is  intended  to help eCryptfs recover data from their encrypted home or encrypted private
       partitions.  It is useful to run this from a LiveISO or a recovery image.  It must run under  sudo(8)  or
       with root permission, in order to search the filesystem and perform the mounts.

       The  program can take a target encrypted directory on the command line.  If unspecified, the utility will
       search the entire system looking for encrypted private  directories,  as  configured  by  ecryptfs-setup-
       private(1).

       If  an  encrypted  directory  and a wrapped-passphrase file are found, the user is prompted for the login
       (wrapping) passphrase, the keys are inserted into the keyring, and the data is decrypted and mounted.

       If no wrapped-passphrase file is found, the user will be  prompted  for  their  mount  passphrase.   This
       passphrase  is  typically  32  characters  of  [0-9a-f].   All users are prompted to urgently record this
       randomly generated passphrase when they first setup their encrypted private directory.

       The  destination  mount  of  the  decrypted  data  is   a   temporary   directory,   in   the   form   of
       /tmp/ecryptfs.XXXXXXXX.

       By  default,  the  mount  will  be  read-only.   To  mount  with  read and write permission, add the --rw
       parameter.

SEE ALSO

       ecryptfs-setup-private(1), sudo(8)

       http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/mounting-your-encrypted-home-from.html

       http://ecryptfs.org/

AUTHOR

       This manpage was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used  by
       others).   Permission  is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian and Ubuntu systems, the complete text of the  GNU  General  Public  License  can  be  found  in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

ecryptfs-utils                                     2010-12-17                        ecryptfs-recover-private(1)