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ecryptfs-utils package

  1. Bug #1052038
  2. Comment #42

Comment 42 for bug 1052038

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: [Bug 1052038] Re: ecryptfs_fnek_sig missing when login at the same time on cron session close

Quoting Tyler Hicks (<email address hidden>):
> Re-subscribing ubuntu-sponsors and ubuntu-sru.
>
> The regression scare from Serge was caused by his manual modifications
> to ~/.ecryptfs/Private.sig. He developed a feature for the encrypted
> home mount helper in the past and, most likely during that time, he had
> manually modified his .sig file and left trailing "junk" after his key
> signatures. After removing the offending bytes from his .sig file,
> everything worked as expected for him. It is not
> common/expected/supported for users to manually modify their .sig files
> and I don't expect any user to see the problem that Serge experienced.

More to the point, ignoring the junk could be deemed more wrong than
failing on it, so a hearty +1.