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[Martin Albisetti <argentina@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just an update, the above instructions don't let you actually read any
of the files, it just shows you there names  :)

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"mounting eCryptfs: [-2] No such file or directory" when trying to mount encrypted home
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455709
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

When trying to mount my encrypted home from an external disc, doing the following command:
mount -t ecryptfs -o ecryptfs_sig=<FIRST_SIG>,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=<SECOND_SIG>,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16 SRC_DIR TARGET_DIR

I get "mounting eCryptfs: [-2] No such file or directory"

The current workaround is:

- sudo su -
- keyctl clear @u
- keyctl list @u
(should be empty)
- ecryptfs-insert-wrapped-passphrase-into-keyring /path/to/your/wrapped-passphrase
- keyctl list @u
- mount.ecryptfs /path/to/your/encrypted/data /mnt/your/mount/dir
(it will first prompt you for a passphrase)

Open another terminal and run:
- ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase /path/to/your/wrapped-passphrase
- copy and paste that long/random passphrase back into your other terminal, where you're doing the mount, this is your mount passphrase
- select (aes, 16, no passthrough)
- select yes for filename encryption
- in your other terminal, tail -n1 /path/to/your/Private.sig
- this is your fnek sig
- copy and paste this into your mount window
- Enter

You should have it mounted, but maybe not something you should use reliably.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 19 16:03:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: ecryptfs-utils 81-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: ecryptfs-utils
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686