Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not directly cause loss of data/privacy.
You can use 'adduser --encrypt-home' to add a user with an encrypted
home directory. It would be a nice feature if the gnome-control-center
could configure encrypted home directories, but that is a missing
feature and not a vulnerability.
** Visibility changed to: Public
** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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Title:
No option to encrypt home folder when adding new user via GUI
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Component: user-accouns
When adding a new user via the "user accounts" GUI of gnome-control-center,
there is no option to encrypt the new users's home folder.
In contrast, the option is supported via the CLI ("adduser --encrypt-home").
The GUI should support this option, too.
I consider this a security vulnerability mainly for the following
reason:
During installation, the ubiquity installer offers the option to
encrypt the first administrator's home folder. Having chosen this
option, the administrator is likely to assume that new users will be
created with the same level of security. (At least, I did. I double-
checked just out of curiosity and was very surprised that the new
user's home was unencrypted.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu0.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic-pae 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 23 16:44:27 2012
InstallationMedia: Edubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386
(20120423)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3
deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu2
gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu5
indicator-datetime 0.3.94-0ubuntu2
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