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[Matt Price <matt.price@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dustin,

I'm also having priblem with the encryptfs-add-passphrase "$MOUNTPASS"
line, so that i also get the following sequence of errors:

unable to read salt value from user's .ecryptfsrc file; using default
ERROR: Could not add passphrase to the current keyring

this happened after i was fooling around somewhat irresponsibly with
ecryptfs-utils, decided to wipe the encrypted directory & .ecryptfs and
then recreate them; as kyle describes, after you do something like this
it's no longer possible to use the setup-private tool.  moreover i'm
really not sure where to find the keyring that pam is adding to -- i
looked through my gnome keyrings and don't see the ecryptfs password
anywhere in them.  because of this it's hard for me to figure out what
to do next, or what values need to be reset where...

i'm not sure this belongs in the same bug report as the original issue,
but it seems to me to be a usability issue -- that the setup is easy to
break and hard to fix, largely because the way it works isn't really
documented.

thanks, matt

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ecryptfs-utils does not handle changing password
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283477
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Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: Incomplete
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

I recently changed my login password via:
passwd defcon
changed password
rebooted
Logged in and I get no private directory
I then tried ecryptfs-rewrap-passphrase ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase oldpass newpass and rebooted and still no go, what can I do to recover my data??
Thanks

I also get this error:
defcon@ion:~/.ecryptfs$ mount.ecryptfs_private 
keyctl_search: Required key not available