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[Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don't worry, I poked him on IRC about 2 minutes after he asked going "it's 
already there *link*"  I think he forgot to scroll up when he asked.  I also 
think he already started playing with it. 

I think there's something race-y about this.  On the same hardware as before, 
I did the same install with the same options....and KDE loaded fine. pfft. 
Dustin tried it twice and it worked for him too.

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netboot newuser and ecryptfs fails to login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317895
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Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: New
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Steps to reproduce:

1. take the netboot directory from the alternate CD and setup a tftp server with it
2. boot a system over the network using the attached preseed file
3. login with that user after installation is done

At login the user cannot mount it's ~/.Private directory over to ~/.

I fixed this by doing:

1. login as root
2. rm -fr ~user/.ecryptfs ~user/.Private
3. su - user
4. ecrypt-setup-private
5. changed .Private/Private.mnt to point to /home/user instead of /home/user/Private

There might not be a simple way to provide a password from a preseed file since the password is encrypted in this file.


Note:
- when using the preseed file provided, do not provide any manual input (except if something fails and you need to hit continue).