[ale] encryption question

[drifter]

Hanging on the wall of my high school chemistry lab (50 years ago)
was this sign.  "Assume will make an ass of you and me."

I blithely assumed that a program like Kgpg would come with an
install of Kbuntu that had the option of encrypting the home
directory automatically -- auto decrypts on valid password at boot.

Obviously it did not, so having the data (keyrings, etc.) was insufficient.

Thanks for the help.  Did an apt-get install and now decryption works
as it should.

Sean

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On Wednesday 07 July 2010 16:12:14 James Sumners wrote:
> http://utils.kde.org/projects/kgpg/ looks promising. Found via
> http://www.google.com/search?q=kde+gnupg . It's also listed on
> http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/frontends.html .
> 
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> > Still trying to get this netbook up and running at it should.
> >
> > Kbuntu 10.04 -- fresh install; reloaded files from saved /home.
> >
> > .gnupg copied back into /home
> >
> > try to decrypt file and KDE wants to know what application
> > do I want to use to open the file.  What should happen is a
> > dialog box should pop up asking for the passphrase.
> >
> > Obviously I am missing something.
> > But I don't know what.
> > Clues would be appreciated as I really needto be able to decrypt
> > that file.
> >
> > Sean
>