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[Alexander Kraev <alexander.kraev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I did that. The situation is the same.

On the next login, the system accepted my public key but didn't mount
home dir. The error is the same:

sshd[11368]: Mount of private directory return code [256]

It's strange, but I made a restart of apache2, logged off from the
system, then logged on and the system did mount the private directory.
It looks like I do not need to restart sshd, I just need to type sudo
command to have home directory mounted on the next login.

Hope you are able to understand me and my efforts helps you.

Thanks,
Alex

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Auto mount of encrypted home directory RANDOMLY stops to work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364015
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Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: Incomplete
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
I had a problem with ssh public key auth and encrypted home directory in Jaunty. I fixed the issue by workaround provided by Dustin Kirkland:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/362427

But after reboot auto mount of encrypted home directory has stopped to work. There is only one error string in auth.log:

Mount of private directory return code [256]

At the same time I am able to mount home directory manually through ecryptfs-mount-private command. But  /sbin/mount.ecryptfs_private shows me the following:

keyctl_search: Required key not available
Perhaps try the interactive 'ecryptfs-mount-private'

... looks like pam_ecryptfs is not able to read  ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase