Comment 24 for bug 362427

This looks like this is a problem that affects many but that there doesn't appear to be any viable solution to. It seems as though the best we can hope for is to configure sshd to look for the authorized_keys outside the home directory while it is still unmounted, but all that does is login to the machine but still leave the home directory unmounted.

I think likely the only way to solve this was if upstream patched ecryptfs to some how allow SSH key authentication. I don't know how difficult that would be to do.