Old account is block due to new installation

[pookito]

Guys, I will make the story short. I realized that the wireless was not working correctly, and the problem was the OS, so I decided to reinstall kubuntu again. Luckily, I had a home partition and I decided not to reformat it. I created the new account, on kubuntu.

The problem is that I do not have access to my old account. It is encrypted, and it does not show on my account manager. Is there a way for me to do that, so I can put my old password and keep on going with my life.

When I try to have access from the cmd line this is what I do:

ecryptfs-mount-private
Enter your login passphrase:

Inserted auth tok with sig [746d11d7c96e54b1] into the user session keyring
fopen: No such file or directory


Please help.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

What OS was the old account created under?

[pookito]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

kubuntu 9.10 64 bit

[Snowhog]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

What was your 'previous' user name - before you reinstalled and created another user account? Or, when you reinstalled, did you use the same user name?

You can also ask questions over on irc://irc.oftc.net/#ecryptfs

[pookito]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

What was your 'previous' user name - before you reinstalled and created another user account? Or, when you reinstalled, did you use the same user name?

My previous account's name is pookito.

When reinstalled the new os I created an account with a different name.

[Snowhog]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

You can try adding pookito as a new user from the CLI:

sudo useradd -d /home/pookito

This adds the user pookito and specifies /home/pookito as that users /home directory. You should then be able to login using pookito through the KDM login. Once logged in, you can try to access the encrypted directory.

[pookito]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

You can try adding pookito as a new user from the CLI:

sudo useradd -d /home/pookito

This adds the user pookito and specifies /home/pookito as that users /home directory. You should then be able to login using pookito through the KDM login. Once logged in, you can try to access the encrypted directory.

After, I tried that command the command line help guide came into the screen. Nothing happened. I think the -d is the home directory for the new user account. Should I use another flag, like "-b"? Please help.

[Snowhog]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

Sorry. Missed an element. From the CLI type:

sudo useradd -d /home/pookito pookito

[pookito]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

Sorry. Missed an element. From the CLI type:

sudo useradd -d /home/pookito pookito

I tried that, the good news is that the account is added to the user management. Bad news is, that it is locked and it does not want to enter. Is there anything else that I can do. Thanks

[Snowhog]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

I won't assume, so, since adding the user pookito, have you then tried:

When I try to have access from the cmd line this is what I do:

ecryptfs-mount-private
Enter your login passphrase:

[pookito]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

sure I have. I even tried to do it via GUI with sudo konqueror. When the terminal comes up, it ask me for the pass-phrase. When I first tried, I put the wrong password.

The program keeps on asking for the right password until I put the right password. When I put the right password, the terminal disappears but nothing else happens. It is like I need to specify a mount point or something like that. Is there anything else that I need to do?

[Snowhog]

Re: Old account is block due to new installation

You can also ask questions over on irc://irc.oftc.net/#ecryptfs

It might be time for you to ask questions above. The problem appears to be with accessing the encrypted partition, and this group may/probably/likely has way more experience that anyone here.