Searching for "encrypt home" gives no results

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

ubuntu-docs 12.04.4, Ubuntu 12.04

1. Open the Help.
2. Search for "encrypt home".

What happens: "No matching help pages found in “Ubuntu Desktop Guide”."

What should happen: Instructions on how to encrypt your home folder.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Well, the Ubuntu Desktop Guide doesn't have any documentation at all for installation.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

It's not obvious that encrypting your home folder in Ubuntu requires (re)installation. It doesn't in OS X, for example. So I don't think you can expect people not to search for it for that reason.

[Richard Roberts (y-rich)]

It appears that the process is a simple one-liner, by way of ecryptfs but there is no help page in the 14.04 tree

[Richard Roberts (y-rich)]

Short page added, for consideration.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I just wrote this comment:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1279906/comments/1

It suggests that this kind of instruction fits better in the community help wiki, with a link from the official system documentation.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

This would be beyond the scope of the GUI based Ubuntu Desktop Guide.