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** Changed in: ecryptfs
       Status: New => In Progress

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

** Changed in: ecryptfs
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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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: Fix Committed
Status in “adduser” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” package in Ubuntu: In Progress

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