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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) has assigned this bug to you for gnome-control-center in Ubuntu Precise:

seb128 asked me to file this bug...

He noticed that the Gnome3 new user dialog does not support the encrypt-
home-directory feature that was present in previous versions of Gnome.

To solve this, the new user dialog would have a boolean checkbox
(defaulted to un-checked), which asks if this new user's home directory
should be created.  Talk to mpt about the wordsmithing.  If checked,
then you need to add --encrypt-home to the 'adduser' invocation.  Before
running adduser, you'd also need to ensure that ecryptfs-utils is
installed.

For real security, you would also need to run (as root) ecryptfs-setup-
swap, which would encrypt the user's swap space.  This is necessary, as
any files/data that gets swapped out to disk could be written in the
clear, thereby circumventing the user's requested encryption.  Further
note that if swap is encrypted, hibernation should be disabled (suspend
continues to work just fine).

** Affects: hundredpapercuts
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Paper Cuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja)
         Status: New

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Precise)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: saucy
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encrypted-home support in new user dialog
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/816669
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