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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

James-

First of all, I have marked this bug "private" for now, since you have
attached this tarball.

Please confirm that you don't actually have any sensitive data in this
tarball....

It is encrypted, and that should protect your data.  However, you have
given someone something to "attack".  That's generally not recommended.

If this is just normal, skeleton data, with no personal information,
it's fine, and I'd like to make this bug public again.

On the other hand, if you have real, private data in this bug, let's
keep this bug private, and close it quietly.  Then, please open a new
bug WITHOUT the attachment ;-)

:-Dustin

** Visibility changed to: Private

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

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ecryptfs-mount-private in a chroot with a livecd
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337475
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

trying to access an encrypted /home/user from a livecd

using virtualbox, I installed jaunty with the "default" encrypted /home/user option during partitionning.

the install is ok and I access the data both in GUI or in single mode using the ecryptfs-mount-private as user

Now I boot on a jaunty livecd.
once in the livecd GUI I use a terminal and I set up a chroot

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
chroot /mnt
su user
                           **** FIRST FAILURE ****
                            keyctl_search: Required key not available
cd /home/user
ls /home/user
                         Access....desktop README;txt
ecryptfs-mount-private
                         using default salt value ....
                         inserted auth tok with sig .......................;
                        keyctl_search: required key not available
                       perhaps try ecryptfs-mount-private
cd ~
ls /home/user
                    it is filled with cryptic things (see user.tar attached)

/var/log/messages in user.tar as well