Whole story: On one laptop, I installed from the mini iso (and chose kubuntu-desktop, the mini iso is the same for all *buntu) and found I couldn't login to KDE fully because it couldn't write configs (rebooted and tried to login multiple times, was driving people #kubuntu-devel nuts trying to figure out if it was KDE's fault because KDE was throwing errors). I logged into the VT and saw that ~ had 500 permissions (while logged in as the only user on there). I did a chmod 700 /home/maco ...and all worked well.
On this laptop, I was trying to figure out why that occurred, and here is where I edited the ecryptfs-setup-private script. The first user I created with adduser --encrypt-home was test3. When that user is not logged in the permissions are 755. When that user is logged in, the permissions are 700. Then after what you said I did some more testing. I commented out the if statement I had added (so back to the original code) and did adduser -- encrypt-home test5. When this user is not logged in, the permissions are 500. When this user is logged in the permissions are 700. -- netboot newuser and ecryptfs fails to login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317895 You received this bug notification because you are a member of eCryptfs, which is subscribed to ecryptfs-utils in ubuntu. Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: New Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. take the netboot directory from the alternate CD and setup a tftp server with it 2. boot a system over the network using the attached preseed file 3. login with that user after installation is done At login the user cannot mount it's ~/.Private directory over to ~/. I fixed this by doing: 1. login as root 2. rm -fr ~user/.ecryptfs ~user/.Private 3. su - user 4. ecrypt-setup-private 5. changed .Private/Private.mnt to point to /home/user instead of /home/user/Private There might not be a simple way to provide a password from a preseed file since the password is encrypted in this file. Note: - when using the preseed file provided, do not provide any manual input (except if something fails and you need to hit continue). _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
