On Sun, 2019-06-30 at 18:17 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Andrea Borgia <and...@borgia.bo.it> wrote: > > Il 30/06/19 11:52, Curt ha scritto: > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928956 > > > > > > Due to #765854 ecryptfs-utils has been removed from Buster. > > > The kernel module (ecryptfs.ko) is still built but depending on > > > the > > > upgrade path users will be unable to mount their encrypted home > > > directories (pam module, ecryptfs-mount-private missing). > > > So they should probably be strongly advised to not upgrade. > > Should I count myself lucky that I have two systems running > > "testing" > > with also "stable" sources? Perhaps it's time to mark the package > > as > > "hold" :) > > I'd be interested to know if there is an alternative: not so much > > for > > my desktop but my laptop really needs it. Thanks for the heads up, > > though. > > You could compile ecryptfs-utils on Buster manually to get the > dependencies right. > > Or keep stretch in sources.list but this will not work forever, as > soon > as Stretch gets archived it will break. > > Other than that: Reinstalling the system with full disk encryption or > just copying the files from the ecryptfs and then removing it are the > only real other options.
Or if you have (or can make) a new disk partition, use dm-crypt to encrypt that and put the file system on that that people want encrypted (for /home?). Personally, for several releases I've used dm-crypt with LUKS for a partiton containing everything apart from /boot. (Done using Debian installer when creating a system). -- Tixy
