How to Encrypt home folder?

Can anyone point my to any tutorial that will show me how to encrypt home folder in zorin? I didn't do it during the installation because the installer would crash every time I checked the box "Encrypt my home folder"

Hi,

you can try this:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/encrypt-ho ... ion-linux/

Regards Wolfman

I agree with swarfendor437. Encrypting the home directory entirely is not a good idea. However, if you want to (or must) encrypt certain directories within the home directory, I would suggest you take a look at TrueCrypt. It creates a crypt file which is then mounted as a volume. You can save into that volume as you do anything else, and it is encrypted on the fly into the crypt file. You can put this file anywhere you like (where you have access), so if you lose the home directory, and the encrypted file is not within your /home area, you haven't lost it. It's also easy to put the mounting/unmounting into shell scripts. I use it to encrypt my rsnapshot runs on my external USB drive. I also have it encrypting my main files from my home directory into a 15GB crypt volume.

Hello,

I have just the opposite problem. I encrypted the Home folder during the installation and now find it an annoyance. My question is, is there a simple way to remove encryption? Or, is it possible to re-install Zorin 8 32-bit from my install DVD and overwrite the whole install? Since I have only just installed it, I don't care if everything is overwritten. I just want a simple way to remove the encryption. Additionally, is it necessary also have a password. That was also something I did during installation. If I could get by without it, I'd just as soon not have it.

Any assistance would be wonderful!

Thanks,

-Casper

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