How to encrypt home folder after installing ElementryOS Loki

Question

I forgot to check for home folder encryption at the time of installation.? So is there any safe way to do that. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

First, install sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils cryptsetup. You'll need to encrypt your home folder while you are logged out, so u need to change account-it has to be account with sudo privileges.

Login to the other account.

Then run sudo ecryptfs-migrate-home -u user and replace user with name of your account (the one that you want to encrypt).

Ta-da! Your home folder is encrypted. Afterwards: 1.Login to your encrypted account immediately. (Do not reboot before that!) 2. Click *Run this action * to create passphrase

In installation process system encrypts also your swap partition, so to encrypt it use sudo ecryptfs-setup-swap.

That's everything. :)