Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: user-setup
The Jaunty Alpha2 server and alternate installations offer a new option
just after creating the initial user.
This option is supposed to setup the user's home directory for
encryption.
Unfortunately, this is not working, due to missing kernel modules (ecb).
If you select this option, the user will be created, however the
encrypted home directory setup will not complete. This will yield an
unwritable (500) home directory, and your /etc/skel will be missing.
If you are suffering from this problem in post installation, as a temporary
workaround, you can:
$ sudo passwd # set a root password
$ exit
login: root
# userdel -r $YOUR_USER
# rm -rf /var/lib/ecryptfs/$YOUR_USER
# adduser --encrypt-home $YOUR_USER
# exit
login: $YOUR_USER
This should be solved very shortly after Alpha2 in the daily iso's with
an update to the crypto-modules package (and possibly some appropriate
modprobing by user-setup).
:-Dustin
:-Dustin
** Affects: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Invalid
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical
Assignee: Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
Status: Triaged
** Affects: user-setup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical
Status: Triaged
** Changed in: user-setup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Critical
Status: New => Triaged
** Also affects: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Critical
Assignee: (unassigned) => Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
Status: New => Triaged
Target: None => jaunty-alpha-3
** Changed in: user-setup (Ubuntu)
Target: None => jaunty-alpha-3
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Jaunty Alpha 2 Installation: encrypted home directory broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309541
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “user-setup” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: user-setup
The Jaunty Alpha2 server and alternate installations offer a new option just
after creating the initial user.
This option is supposed to setup the user's home directory for encryption.
Unfortunately, this is not working, due to missing kernel modules (ecb).
If you select this option, the user will be created, however the encrypted home
directory setup will not complete. This will yield an unwritable (500) home
directory, and your /etc/skel will be missing.
If you are suffering from this problem in post installation, as a temporary
workaround, you can:
$ sudo passwd # set a root password
$ exit
login: root
# userdel -r $YOUR_USER
# rm -rf /var/lib/ecryptfs/$YOUR_USER
# adduser --encrypt-home $YOUR_USER
# exit
login: $YOUR_USER
This should be solved very shortly after Alpha2 in the daily iso's with an
update to the crypto-modules package (and possibly some appropriate modprobing
by user-setup).
:-Dustin
:-Dustin
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