Ubuntu
ecryptfs-utils package

  1. Bug #364015
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 364015

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: Auto mount of encrypted home directory RANDOMLY stops to work

Hmm, okay, I'm unfamiliar with pam_ssh.

Please help me understand...

What are you trying to accomplish with this pam-ssh package?

Your home (or private) directory is encrypted with a mount passphrase. This mount passphrase is symmetrically encrypted (wrapped) with your system login passphrase.

In order to automatically mount your home (or private) directory, you must enter your system login passphrase, such that pam_ecryptfs can unwrap ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase, obtain your mount passphrase, add that to your kernel keyring, and then perform the mount.

It's possible that this pam-ssh feature is incompatible with encrypted-home/encrypted-private. If so, we should document this as such.

Can you please provide more information?

:-Dustin