I installed ecryptfs-utils
and used it to create a Private
encrypted folder in my home directory.
During creation of Private
encrypted folder I was asked for a login passphrase and a mount passphrase. As far as I understood the login passphrase should match my Ubuntu user login password and the mount passphrase should be required to access the encrypted folder.
To my surprise, instead, whenever I want to mount my Private folder running command ecryptfs-mount-private
, I am asked for my login passphrase instead of my mount passphrase. Is it so that ecryptfs
is expected to behave?
I thought that the two passfrases were a double protection in case someone crack my login password, to protect my most private data.
So, what the mount passphrase is useful for and when someone (who) is required to use it?
Best Answer
These are not my words but I can not explain it better …
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