{"id":60673,"date":"2023-11-01T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/60673\/linux-check-whether-home-directory-is-encrypted\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:39:02","slug":"linux-check-whether-home-directory-is-encrypted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/60673\/linux-check-whether-home-directory-is-encrypted\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: Check whether home directory is encrypted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do I check whether the &#8220;home&#8221; directory in Linux is encrypted?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To check if the home directory is encrypted for user data, we can use the command &#8220;<code>ls -a \/home<\/code>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>If a folder with the name &#8220;<code>.ecryptfs<\/code>&#8221; appears, then the folder is encrypted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/enc_folder_home_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"143\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60669\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I check whether the &#8220;home&#8221; directory in Linux is encrypted?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1682],"class_list":["post-60673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-linux-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}