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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

You don't have to do this as root, you can do this as the
non-privileged user with:

$ ecryptfs-umount-private
$ chmod 700 Private
$ rm -rf ~/.ecryptfs ~/.Private ~/Private

Understanding, of course, that you're blowing away any and all data in
those directories.

I don't think that I'm going to provide a utility to do this.

However, I could perhaps create a utility, ecryptfs-delete-private, as
you suggest, that prints these 3 steps to the screen, with appropriate
safeguard warnings.  Would this suffice?

:-Dusitn

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Cannot delete a single user ~/Private folder
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298421
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

Intrepid Ibex - last updated
Kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
Gnome-Desktop 2.24

Using the command "ecryptfs-setup-private" generates a new folder inside the home-area, after logout and coming back - so it's intended and works.

Having more users than one, every one can do as well in his/her home-area -> it works too!

But if one of these wants to delete the ~/Private folder separate, there is no command to do so else to deinstall the package "ecryptfs-utils" on common operating system totally". I'm missing a command as "ecryptfs-delete-private" available for each user.