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[Sean Sosik-Hamor <sean.sosik-hamor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sciri@baka:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release:	9.10
Codename:	karmic
sciri@baka:~$ apt-cache policy adduser
adduser:
  Installed: 3.110ubuntu6
  Candidate: 3.110ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 3.110ubuntu6 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
sciri@baka:~$ apt-cache policy ecryptfs-utils
ecryptfs-utils:
  Installed: 81-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 81-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 81-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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ecryptfs-setup-private creates .ecryptfs dir with wrong permissions when GID is different than UID
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445301
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Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: New
Status in “adduser” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
when adding a user with an encrypted home directory passing the group ID from the CLI, the utility fail to set the permissions to the .ecryptfs and .Private directory.

Here is an example:

adduser --uid 1030 --gid 115 --encrypt-home lmondesi
...
chown: invalid group: `lmondesi:lmondesi'
chown: invalid group: `lmondesi:lmondesi'
chown: invalid group: `lmondesi:lmondesi'
chown: invalid group: `lmondesi:lmondesi'
chown: invalid group: `lmondesi:lmondesi'

This causes the permissions for the /home/.ecryptfs/lmondesi/.{ecryptfs,Private} which obviously prevents it from being mounted

lmondesi@zod:/home/.ecryptfs/lmondesi$ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-10-07 05:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-07 05:30 ..
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2009-10-07 05:30 .ecryptfs
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2009-10-07 05:30 .Private