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dual ubuntu boot, shared encrypted home

Asked by AlexGenaud

I would like to install Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 on the same machine. I would like to share home directory data. However I am concerned that simply sharing a /home partition will lead to two problems: (1) incompatible versions of dot-config files and (2) incompatible ecryptfs handling between these versions of Ubuntu.

I am considering using different users for each Ubuntu installation (/home/user10.04 and /home/user10.10). However each will share a private encrypted directory (with symlinks between various (/home/user*/*) directories). Should this work? Perhaps there is there a better method of sharing encrypted home data between different Linux installations?

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) said : 		#1

You should be able to use a shared /home partition across Ubuntu 10.04
and 10.10, assuming your login password is the same on both
installations.

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