NAME

       ecryptfs-recover-private - find and mount any encrypted private directories

SYNOPSIS

       ecryptfs-recover-private [--rw] [encrypted private dir]

DESCRIPTION

       This  utility  is  intended  to  help  eCryptfs  recover data from their encrypted home or
       encrypted private partitions.  It is useful to run this  from  a  LiveISO  or  a  recovery
       image.   It  must  run  under  sudo(8)  or  with  root  permission, in order to search the
       filesystem and perform the mounts.

       The program can take a target encrypted directory on the command  line.   If  unspecified,
       the  utility  will  search the entire system looking for encrypted private directories, as
       configured by ecryptfs-setup-private(1).

       If an encrypted directory and a wrapped-passphrase file are found, the  user  is  prompted
       for  the login (wrapping) passphrase, the keys are inserted into the keyring, and the data
       is decrypted and mounted.

       If no wrapped-passphrase file is  found,  the  user  will  be  prompted  for  their  mount
       passphrase.   This  passphrase  is  typically  32  characters  of [0-9a-f].  All users are
       prompted to urgently record this randomly generated passphrase when they first setup their
       encrypted private directory.

       The  destination  mount  of  the  decrypted  data is a temporary directory, in the form of
       /tmp/ecryptfs.XXXXXXXX.

       By default, the mount will be read-only.  To mount with read and write permission, add the
       --rw parameter.

SEE ALSO

       ecryptfs-setup-private(1), sudo(8)

       http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/mounting-your-encrypted-home-from.html

       http://ecryptfs.org/

AUTHOR

       This  manpage was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but
       may be used by others).  Permission is granted to  copy,  distribute  and/or  modify  this
       document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian and Ubuntu systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License  can  be
       found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.