This bug was fixed in the package ecryptfs-utils - 73-0ubuntu3
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ecryptfs-utils (73-0ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low
* Add interactive update-notifier hook for reminding the user to write down
the autogenerated passphrase: (LP: #352307)
- Add debian/local/ecryptfs-remind-passphrase: update-notifier hook, with
German translations. (Unfortunately this package is not gettextized yet,
thus translations have to be added inline).
- debian/ecryptfs-utils.install: Install above into
/usr/share/ecryptfs-utils.
- Add update-notifier-remind-passphrase.dpatch: Create update-notifier
message about recording your passphrase, if it was generated randomly,
and ecryptfs-setup-private is run as root.
-- Martin Pitt <[email protected]> Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:34:44
-0700
** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu Jaunty)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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update-notifier message about recording mount passphrase
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/352307
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in ecryptfs-utils in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils
The ecryptfs-setup-private utility is used to configure a user's encrypted-home
or encrypted-private directory.
By default, ecryptfs-setup-private will generate a random 128-bit mount
passphrase from /dev/urandom.
If executed on the command line, a message such as the following is displayed
to the terminal:
************************************************************************
YOU SHOULD RECORD THIS MOUNT PASSPHRASE AND STORE IN A SAFE LOCATION:
f436f2db331b520e8879d53d012c363a
THIS WILL BE REQUIRED IF YOU NEED TO RECOVER YOUR DATA AT A LATER TIME.
************************************************************************
Jaunty now supports configuring an encrypted-home directory in the installer
itself (with the preseed option user-setup/encrypt-home=true).
When this happens, a random mount passphrase is generated, but the user is not
given the opportunity to record this passphrase (it was decided that this would
interrupt the install experience).
What we desperately need, then, is for ecryptfs-setup-private to trigger an
update-notifier message to be displayed on subsequent boots (until dismissed by
the user). This message to convey to the user:
1) That a strong, random mount passphrase has been generated to encrypt their
home directory
2) That this passphrase should be recorded (written down, printed), and stored
in a separate location
3) That this passphrase would be needed if manual data recovery is ever
necessary
4) How to go about retrieving this passphrase
$ ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase $HOME/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase
Passphrase: foobar
f436f2db331b520e8879d53d012c363a
Martin Pitt has offered to help with this. I hope it can still make Jaunty.
:-Dustin
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