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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

Attaching a patch that solves this in deluser.  Basically, we do a
'find' on /var/lib/ecryptfs/$user as well, and add those to the
files/dirs to be removed.  Note that there is a regex list of prohibited
dirs that matches on "/var", so I added an exception condition for
/var/lib/ecryptfs/$user.

Patch attached.  I'm requesting some review of someone with more
adduser/deluser expertise than I ;-)

:-Dustin

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

** Attachment added: "out.diff"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24314131/out.diff

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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: In Progress
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid

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