How to change user password when home is encrypted?

[lunatico]

Hello,

I looked all over the forum and couldn't find a solution to this. I have LM13 XFCE installed with and encrypted home folder.

I recently changed my user password and root password. I did this on the terminal by:

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sudo su
passwd <username>
passwd root

Up until here everything was fine. However, after I rebooted I could no longer login. After looking at the logs I realized that the home folder was not been mounted. I was able to ssh in (or go to different tty) and do 'encryptfs-mount-private' to mount home folder and then I was able to log into Xfce desktop. But the change would not persist, after rebooting I was back to unmounted home.

I Googled a bit on how I could fix this but didn't find anything. I changed the user password to be the same old one and then home was getting mounted automatically again.

How can I change my user password without breaking the encrypted home folder mount?

Thanks!

[xenopeek]

Answered here: https://web.archive.org/web/20161216114 ... /Ecryptfs/. Just change your password while logged in, and do it as yourself and not as root (no su or sudo!).

[lunatico]

Thanks a lot! That worked just fine. After reading that it actually makes all the sense in the world.