Is there a easy way to encrypt my /home directory?

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I'm running Arch Linux and would like to encrypt my personal files in my home directory /home/myusername. What is the recommended way of encrypting it? I've already read about dm-crypt and LUKS. But both methods seem to require entering a password after every (re)boot. Is there a other more easy way?

Additionally, would you recommending encrypting the complete / partition?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '23 at 13:26

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Consider the information from "Benjamin's Blog":

How to: Encrypt your Home directory in Arch Linux

answered Jul 18 '23 at 13:26

Vassilis Papanikolaou

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Tomek · Answer 2 · 2020-02-14T22:04:12.160

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I suggest looking at clevis with luks binding and tang for that purpose.

EDIT: There is some documentation on these tools in official RHEL documentation but one needs to search for it. They are included in recent RHEL, CentOS and Fedora (and likely others) and they do come with reasonable man pages. But they DO need some investment of time.

edited Feb 14 '20 at 22:04

answered Feb 14 '20 at 20:01

Tomek

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Is there a easy way to encrypt my /home directory?

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