[Linux]Enable encrypted home folders in Ubuntu.

Introduktion:

Sometimes you want to keep your sensitive information/data for yourself. And most of the time you will store private documents and files in your home folder. A way of keeping this private is to use encryption for the home folder.

Get started:

Install following package:

sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils

After installing above package, the option of "Encrypt home folder" should be visible when creating new users.

If a none encrypted home folder already exists you can use following command to emigrate user:

sudo ecryptfs-migrate-home -u USERNAME

You will be asked to create a passphrase upon logging in.