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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: user-setup

The Jaunty Alpha2 server and alternate installations offer a new option
just after creating the initial user.

This option is supposed to setup the user's home directory for
encryption.

Unfortunately, this is not working, due to missing kernel modules (ecb).

If you select this option, the user will be created, however the
encrypted home directory setup will not complete.  This will yield an
unwritable (500) home directory, and your /etc/skel will be missing.

If you are suffering from this problem in post installation, as a temporary workaround, you can:
 $ sudo passwd    # set a root password
 $ exit
 login: root
 # userdel -r $YOUR_USER
 # rm -rf /var/lib/ecryptfs/$YOUR_USER
 # adduser --encrypt-home $YOUR_USER
 # exit
 login: $YOUR_USER

This should be solved very shortly after Alpha2 in the daily iso's with
an update to the crypto-modules package (and possibly some appropriate
modprobing by user-setup).

:-Dustin


:-Dustin

** Affects: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Critical
     Assignee: Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: user-setup (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Critical
         Status: Triaged

** Changed in: user-setup (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical
       Status: New => Triaged

** Also affects: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
       Status: New => Triaged
       Target: None => jaunty-alpha-3

** Changed in: user-setup (Ubuntu)
       Target: None => jaunty-alpha-3

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Jaunty Alpha 2 Installation: encrypted home directory broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309541
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “user-setup” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: user-setup

The Jaunty Alpha2 server and alternate installations offer a new option just after creating the initial user.

This option is supposed to setup the user's home directory for encryption.

Unfortunately, this is not working, due to missing kernel modules (ecb).

If you select this option, the user will be created, however the encrypted home directory setup will not complete.  This will yield an unwritable (500) home directory, and your /etc/skel will be missing.

If you are suffering from this problem in post installation, as a temporary workaround, you can:
 $ sudo passwd    # set a root password
 $ exit
 login: root
 # userdel -r $YOUR_USER
 # rm -rf /var/lib/ecryptfs/$YOUR_USER
 # adduser --encrypt-home $YOUR_USER
 # exit
 login: $YOUR_USER

This should be solved very shortly after Alpha2 in the daily iso's with an update to the crypto-modules package (and possibly some appropriate modprobing by user-setup).

:-Dustin


:-Dustin