Comment 13 for bug 283477

all I did was change my password in the terminal for my login and rebooted,
now I cannot access my data, now I cant even recreate ecryptfs private...
This is upsetting

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:35 PM, defcon <email address hidden> wrote:

> ok I just moved .ecryptfs and .Private to another directory to reinstall
> ecryptfs private
> ecryptfs-setup-private
> defcon@ion:~$ ecryptfs-setup-private
> Enter your login passphrase:
> Enter your login passphrase (again):
> Enter your mount passphrase [leave blank to generate one]:
> Enter your mount passphrase (again):
>
> ************************************************************************
> YOU SHOULD RECORD YOUR MOUNT PASSPHRASE AND STORE IN A SAFE LOCATION:
> THIS WILL BE REQUIRED IF YOU NEED TO RECOVER YOUR DATA AT A LATER TIME.
> ************************************************************************
>
> Unable to read salt value from user's .ecryptfsrc file; using default
> ERROR: Could not add passphrase to the current keyring
> defcon@ion:~$
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Dustin Kirkland <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
>> Your problems begin here:
>> * Error attempting to unwrap passphrase and insert into the user session
>> keyring; rc = [-5]
>>
>> If ecryptfs cannot unwrap the passphrase, it cannot perform the mount
>> and you will not be able to read your data.
>>
>> Looking at the system log, it says:
>> * ion ecryptfs-insert-wrapped-passphrase-into-keyring: Incorrect wrapping
>> key for file [/home/defcon/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase]
>>
>> This means that you're trying to unwrap the mount passphrase with the
>> wrong login password. You might try both your current, and your new
>> password, or any other that you might have used.
>>
>> When you can unwrap your mount passphrase successfully, you should be
>> able to perform the mount.
>>
>> In the case that you are not able to unwrap your passphrase, you should
>> have recorded it somewhere. If you setup your Encrypted Private Directory
>> in the installer, there was an installation screen that said:
>>
>> There is no way to recover this passphrase if you lose it. To avoid
>> losing data, you should normally write down the passphrase and keep it
>> in a safe place separate from this computer.
>> .
>> Your new encryption passphrase is as follows:
>> ${PASSPHRASE}
>> Please write this down and store it separately from this computer.
>>
>> Or, if you used 'ecryptfs-setup-private' to setup your ~/Private
>> directory, it said:
>>
>>
>> ************************************************************************
>> YOU SHOULD RECORD THIS MOUNT PASSPHRASE AND STORE IN A SAFE LOCATION:
>> ${PASSPHRASE}
>> THIS WILL BE REQUIRED IF YOU NEED TO RECOVER YOUR DATA AT A LATER TIME.
>>
>> ************************************************************************
>>
>>
>> :-Dustin
>>
>> --
>> ecryptfs-utils does not handle changing password
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283477
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>>
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