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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

> a) Is the information correct that one can just remove the auto-mount
> and/or auto-umount files in order to stop ~/Private from being
> auto-(u)mounted?

Yes.  That is accurate.

However, you must ensure that there is nothing stored in your Private
folder that's required to log into your system.

If you keep getting kicked back to a gdm login window, this probably
means that you have stored some information in your ~/Private folder
that is required for logging into XFCE.  Some configuration files of
some kind.  This is hard for me to debug, since I don't know what's in
your Private folder.

> c) The tutorial on
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory could  be
> completed with the answer to a) and b)

Okay.

:-Dustin

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pam_ecryptfs should respect ~/.ecryptfs/auto-[u]mount files
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

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>From user feedback on the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EncryptedPrivateDirectory wiki page...

 * "I hope there will also be an option for the ~/Private directory to ''not'' be mounted at login"

Additionally, it would be nice to allow a user to "not unmount" ~/Private automatically on logout.

The hooks are already in place in ecryptfs-setup-private to create the ~/.ecryptfs/auto-mount and ~/.ecryptfs/auto-umount files.  We simply need to teach pam_ecryptfs to respect that configuration.

:-Dustin