Ubiquity forces ecryptfs-encryption by default

[Matthias Niess]

Under certain conditions ubiquity forces the user to encrypt his home. The option is selected by default and greyed out, so that it cannot be changed.

This can be reproduced by having a manually partitioned system (with seperate partitions for /boot, /, /home and swap). At the point of the installationprocess, where you select the type of installation choose "Something else" (i.e. manual), pick the partitions you want to use and set all of them to be formatted except /home.

If there are any pre-existing user dirs and ANY of them contains a .Private (or .ecryptfs), ubiquity will force encryption on the new main-user for the new installation. I'm not sure if this is desired.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alexey Ten (Lynn) (alexeyten)]

Reproducible on Precise alpha 2 DVD when choosing to create partitions manually

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]