Quick and dirty setup instructions for encrypting an existing user's home directory in Edgy Eft. Note that some steps are from memory and thus might be slightly off. Please be warned that this process may corrupt your home directory, advertise your password to the internet via a massive spamming campaign, and cause other boys in the locker room to snicker at you. Use at your own risk, you've been warned.

I figured I'd finally sit down and mess with Network Manager since I recently upgraded to Edgy Eft and it looked all purdy and such. Unfortunately, even the version of nm included in Eft is behind on some plugins. Fortunately, this ubuntu forums post had already done the hard work on getting the right code, then it was just a matter of figuring out the right configuration.

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