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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the report, Martin.

I suppose removing /var/lib/ecryptfs/$USER should be safe, if you're
removing their home directory too...

I'm adding a task against adduser, as that's where this code will need
to live.  I'll keep a task open against ecryptfs-utils for now, for
tracking purposes.

:-Dustin

** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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

** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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

** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)

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deluser --remove-home leaves /var/lib/ecryptfs/<username> behind
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347970
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Status in “adduser” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: adduser

On experimenting with encrypted home directories, I repeatedly added and removed users with encrypted home directories (had to do that because of bug 347969).

It occurred to me that "deluser --remove-home foo" followed by "adduser --encrypt-home foo" doesn't work, because deluser leaves /var/lib/ecryptfs/foo behind.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: adduser 3.110ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: adduser
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686