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Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster

From Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster
Date 2019-06-30 19:50 +0200
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On Sun, 2019-06-30 at 18:17 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> wrote:
> > Il 30/06/19 11:52, Curt ha scritto:
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928956
> > > 
> > >   Due to #765854 ecryptfs-utils has been removed from Buster.
> > >   The kernel module (ecryptfs.ko) is still built but depending on
> > > the
> > >   upgrade path users will be unable to mount their encrypted home
> > >   directories (pam module, ecryptfs-mount-private missing).
> > >   So they should probably be strongly advised to not upgrade.
> > Should I count myself lucky that I have two systems running
> > "testing" 
> > with also "stable" sources? Perhaps it's time to mark the package
> > as 
> > "hold" :)
> > I'd be interested to know if there is an alternative: not so much
> > for
> > my desktop but my laptop really needs it. Thanks for the heads up,
> > though.
> 
> You could compile ecryptfs-utils on Buster manually to get the
> dependencies right.
> 
> Or keep stretch in sources.list but this will not work forever, as
> soon
> as Stretch gets archived it will break.
> 
> Other than that: Reinstalling the system with full disk encryption or
> just copying the files from the ecryptfs and then removing it are the
> only real other options.

Or if you have (or can make) a new disk partition, use dm-crypt to
encrypt that and put the file system on that that people want encrypted
(for /home?).

Personally, for several releases I've used dm-crypt with LUKS for a
partiton containing everything apart from /boot. (Done using Debian
installer when creating a system).

-- 
Tixy

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Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-06-30 12:00 +0200
  Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-06-30 17:40 +0200
    Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2019-06-30 18:20 +0200
      Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-30 18:50 +0200
        Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-07-01 10:00 +0200
          Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-01 12:10 +0200
            Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-01 15:20 +0200
              Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-07-01 15:50 +0200
                Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-01 16:10 +0200
              Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-01 22:00 +0200
            Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-01 15:40 +0200
              Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-07-01 15:50 +0200
              Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-01 22:00 +0200
                Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-07-01 22:20 +0200
                Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-02 01:50 +0200
                Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-02 11:20 +0200
                Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-07 02:10 +0200
      Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-06-30 19:00 +0200
      Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2019-06-30 19:50 +0200
        Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-06-30 21:20 +0200
    Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-01 09:50 +0200
      Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-01 16:20 +0200
        Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-01 16:50 +0200
          Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-01 17:50 +0200
      Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-01 16:20 +0200
      70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document removal  of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-07-02 14:10 +0200
        Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document  removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-02 14:40 +0200
          Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document  removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-07-02 15:00 +0200
            Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document  removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-07-02 15:20 +0200
            Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document  removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-02 15:20 +0200
            Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document  removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-02 16:20 +0200
              Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document  removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2019-07-02 16:30 +0200
                Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document  removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-07-02 21:20 +0200
                Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net> - 2019-07-03 09:20 +0200
                Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-03 10:10 +0200
                Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-07-03 11:30 +0200
                Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document  removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) Geoff <unit735@bigpond.com> - 2019-07-03 04:30 +0200
        Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document  removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-08 11:20 +0200

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