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Seeing how an encrypted home directory is as good as the default option in Ubuntu, and seeing as it already works now, this seems like a dumb move. This is a s
by kilian 8y ago
Seeing how an encrypted home directory is as good as the default option in Ubuntu, and seeing as it already works now, this seems like a dumb move.
This is a shame because I just started using Dropbox significantly more to back up shared photos. Time to search for something else, I guess.
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- nebulous1 8y agoNot in the latest Ubuntu installs. They do FDE instead of home folder encryption.
- rcarmo 8y agoThe option to encrypt your home folder is still there in Ubuntu 18.04 (which I set up only yesterday), and appears after you set up volumes upon initial user creation. It is (funnily enough) even possible to enable _both_ kinds of encryption simultaneously. I'd say that they don't use full-disk encryption _instead_ of home folder. They just prompt for it sooner (and it is not the same thing if you have a modestly old machine, or a machine you share with other users).
- sp332 8y agoI just spun up an 18.04.1 install in a VM to check, and I don't see an option to encrypt the user's homedir during installation. Edit: It's listed under "Other base system changes since 16.04 LTS" https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes
- zaarn 8y agoIIRC it does show if you use the advanced installer option (ie where you go manually through all steps). Atleast the ubuntu server does that, though I wouldn't enable that either way since it's a pain to deal with from the outside.
- nebulous1 8y agoYou can manually encrypt your home folder after install, and perhaps they re-enabled the option to do it automatically in 18.04.1 but I haven't read that. It was definitely not there in 18.04.
- SEJeff 8y agoBecause LUKS > encryptfs, even though Dustin Kirkland has done absolutely fantastic work on encryptfs.