eCryptfs

  1. Bug #1328689
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1328689

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Thiago Martins (martinx) wrote : Re: ecryptfs-utils does not work with Ubuntu 14.04.3

This is still a BUG on Xenial!

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root@xenial-1:~# apt install ecryptfs-utils

root@xenial-1:~# adduser --encrypt-home cofre1
Adding user `cofre1' ...
Adding new group `cofre1' (1001) ...
Adding new user `cofre1' (1001) with group `cofre1' ...
Creating home directory `/home/cofre1' ...
Setting up encryption ...

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YOU SHOULD RECORD YOUR MOUNT PASSPHRASE AND STORE IT IN A SAFE LOCATION.
  ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase
THIS WILL BE REQUIRED IF YOU NEED TO RECOVER YOUR DATA AT A LATER TIME.
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Done configuring.

mount: mount(2) failed: No such file or directory
ERROR: Could not mount
adduser: `/usr/bin/ecryptfs-setup-private -b -u cofre1' returned error code 1. Exiting.

root@xenial-1:~# lsb_release -ra
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
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