Unable to change password for encrypted account

[Adrian Cochrane]

My user account was set to be encrypted using the installer and I tried to change the password using the user accounts plug.

This appeared to work until I restarted when logging in with the new password caused Greeter to fade out and back in again and the password entry field shook when I entered my old password.

I've now used the rescue shell to reset my password to the old one so I need no advice in how to get out of this situation.

It would be nice if this was fixed so I can change my password on an encrypted account, but please at least refuse to change passwords for encrypted accounts.

[Mike Wild (mikewild)]

I have seen this bug also. I'm running a dual-boot system (elementary on one drive, Windows 7 on a second drive), with a single root partition and swap partition.

The workaround I found was to run the *ecryptfs-rewrap-passphrase* command after mounting my encrypted home directory. I wrote a more in-depth report + answer here: https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/7947/login-redirects-back-to-login-screen.

[Mike Wild (mikewild)]

Has this been de-escalated because of the small number of affected users? IMO this is a pretty major bug as users without the correct technical know-how will be completely locked out of their systems without being able to recover their files.

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

No, this has not been de-escalated.

[A.V. Albrec (artphotodude)]

The passphrase-rewrap fix failed with the following error:
"ERROR: Encrypted private directory is not setup properly"

Had to rm -fR /home and then recreate it with "adduser --encrypt-home" and then restore. This is a SYSTEM KILLER, if one doesn't know what to do.