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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like passphrases containing:
 "
 %
 \

Can present problems.  I'm marking as "confirmed".


:-Dustin

** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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ecryptfs-setup-private accepts but cannot add to keyring a mount passphrase containing some characters
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290064
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
Release:	8.10

$ apt-cache policy ecryptfs-utils 
ecryptfs-utils:
  Installed: 53-1ubuntu11

Trying to set up a ~/Private with a mount passphrase containing any parentheses ( "(",")" ) will initially be accepted but the script will fail on trying to add the passphrase to the keyring:

# Add the passphrase to current keyring
# On subsequent logins, this should be handled by "pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap"
response=`printf "$MOUNTPASS" | ecryptfs-add-passphrase -`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        error "Could not add passphrase to the current keyring"
fi

This has worked previously.