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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Frank Groeneveld
<frankgroeneveld@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have the same problem with the questionmark (?)
> Should I just escape it?

Hi Frank,

I just tested the password "foo?bar", and could not reproduce this
problem.

:-Dustin

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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.