Comment 34 for bug 1718658

Trying to mount a personnal dir (not home) with ecryptfs-simple fails, with the same error messages in kern.log as comment #20. (Using Linux Mint 19, Xfce.)
The workaround in comments #26 and #30 works for me. (No sudo like in #28 : with sudo the mount works but the key sig gets added to /root/.ecryptfs . So keyctl has to be launched by thenormal user.)

This bug affects a cryptographic (read: highly sensitive) feature, is 15 months old, a patch was proposed 12 months ago, but it is still of "Undecided" importance and still "Unassigned"? Come on! Are the ecryptfs-utils and systemd packages unmaintained at Ubuntu?

The maintainer of ecryptfs-utils, Dustin Kirkland, is only listed as "may be notified" in the list of subscribers! The group maintainer of systemd, "Ubuntu Developers", is not listed at all!