ecryptfs-migrate-home

ecryptfs-migrate-home(8)           eCryptfs           ecryptfs-migrate-home(8)

NAME
       ecryptfs-migrate-home - migrate a user's home directory to an encrypted
       home setup

SYNOPSIS
       ecryptfs-migrate-home [-u|--user USER]

OPTIONS
       -u, --user USER
              Migrate USER's home directory to an encrypted home directory

DESCRIPTION
       WARNING: Make a complete backup copy of the non-encrypted data  to  an-
       other system or external media. This script is dangerous and in case of
       an error, could result in data lost, or USER locked out of the system!

       This program must be executed by root.

       This program will attempt to migrate a user's home directory to an  en-
       crypted home directory.

       This program requires free disk space 2.5x the current size of the home
       directory to be migrated.  Once successful, you  can  recover  most  of
       this space by deleting the cleartext directory.

       The USER must be logged out of all sessions in order to perform the mi-
       gration, and have no open files according to lsof(1).

       Once the migration has completed, the USER must login immediately,  BE-
       FORE THE NEXT REBOOT in order to complete the migration.

       After logging in, if USER can read and write files in their home direc-
       tory successfully, then the migration has  completed  successfully  and
       can remove the cleartext backup in /home/.

       After a successful migration, the USER really must run ecryptfs-unwrap-
       passphrase(1) or zescrow(1) and record their randomly  generated  mount
       passphrase.

       If  swap  is  not already encrypted, it is highly recommended that your
       administrator setup encrypted swap using ecryptfs-setup-swap(1).

SEE ALSO
       ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase(1),   ecryptfs-setup-private(1),   ecryptfs-
       setup-swap(1), lsof(1), rsync(1), zescrow(1)

       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 Pub-
       lic License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

ecryptfs-utils                    2012-01-24          ecryptfs-migrate-home(8)