ecryptfs-recover-private does not find the crypted partition

[Bougron]

Hello

When this command is used as follows:
    sudo -i
    mount -v /dev/sdXN /mnt
    ecryptfs-recover-private
she does not find anything. It's the same with these two codifications:
    ecryptfs-recover-private /mnt
    or
    ecryptfs-recover-private /mnt/home
It is absolutely necessary to do the exact codification like this
    ecryptfs-recover-private /mnt/home/.ecryptfs/ThePoorGuyWhoHasTrouble/.Private

Could you improve the software so that the auto-detection also works in this context.

It is the same thing form another user of the /home partition
   sudo -i
   ecryptfs-recover-private /home/.ecryptfs/MyFriend/.Private

Errror occurs in 16.04 17.04 17.10 and 18.4

Thanks

[Bougron (francis-bougron)]

Hello

It seems to me that line 45 of the script is mis-coded because of its return:

root@u16042:~# ecryptfs-recover-private
INFO: Searching for encrypted private directories (this might take a while)...
find: «/run/user/1000/gvfs»: Permission non accordée
root@u16042:~#

 I think the error message causes the script to end prematurely.

I suggest looking only in the most likely directories.

 dirs=$(find /mnt /home /media /tmp -type d -name ".Private" )

Regards.

[Mathias Bynke (mabynke)]

This affects me in 18.04 after release as well.