[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Just performed a fresh install of 10.04 (which I believe ran an update during the installation process) and was still confronted with the poorly-written message at the top of this page. Is the fix released just for future releases, or was it supposed to be applied during the installation process? Just for clarification, the definition here clarifies where the confusion came from for me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passphrase#Compared_to_passwords Passphrases differ from passwords. A password is usually short — six to ten characters... Passphrases are generally stronger, ... 20 to 30 characters or more is typical The second dialog says to enter your passphrase. Simply changing that to read enter your password would have prevented this entire bug report for me. -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
The reason I am looking at this bug is I tool the steps in #18 to fix Ubuntu. I finally was able to log back in. My happiness soon faded when I realized that my home folder's contents (the contents that was in the folder before I did the steps in #18) was now encrypted. Two files suggest how to open the encrypted files. Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop README.txt In the 'Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop' file it says: THIS DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UNMOUNTED TO PROTECT YOUR DATA. From the graphical desktop, click on: Access Your Private Data or From the command line, run: ecryptfs-mount-private it drops to: What do I do next? -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
update r...@progone:/home/matthew# ecryptfs-mount-private ERROR: Encrypted private directory is not setup properly -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Progone / Darren: This is a bug report intended to clarify the text presented to the user. Please limit your discussion to this topic. I suggest searching the forums or creating a new forum post to discuss the problems you are experiencing, -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Please add a link here to point to your forum post so others who stumble upon this bug in a search may benifit from your experience. Thanks, Mike -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Darren, This link helped me with the same issue you are experiencing. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/85598 -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Just want to cast my vote for PhysicsDan's phrasing in comment #15. I think that makes it crystal clear, which is a *good thing* when encrypting personal files. -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Hi Dustin, I'm a Ubuntu novice to please be easy on me. I believe I am having the same issue as described here after inadvertently setting a passphrase and not recording in. I was in the process of changing my password when this happened so I hope this hasn't made matters worse. When I restart, I now get Could not update ICEauthority file / home/darren/.ICEauthority There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256) Nautilus could not create the following required folders: /home/darren/desktop, / home/darren/.nautilus I then get the Record your encryption passphrase screen and I enter my logon password and the screen and it sits there. I'm now left with no desktop. I have accessed the terminal screen to run your suggestions via terminal and i get this keyctl_search: Required key not available Perhaps try the interactive 'ecryptfs-mount-private' I run it and get Error: Uwrapping passphrase and inserting into the user session keyring failed [-5] Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs Error: Your passphrase is incorrect I then followed step in #3 above and now get this Error: Unwrapping passphrase failed [-5] Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs and don't know where to go now. Help please. -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
It sounds like many people are making the same mistake I did: they read the dialog, and believe that they are being ASKED for a passphrase that will be used to encrypt their home folder. In fact, that password has ALREADY BEEN MADE, and this is merely giving you the opportunity to VIEW that password so that you can record it for safekeeping. There are two factors that contribute to this impression: 1) the dialog opens with To encrypt your home directory or Private folder - the use of the word to at the beginning of the sentence implies future tense- ie, the user believes that this is an action which is ABOUT to occur, not one that has occurred already. 2) in the dialog, reference is made to your user password, but after clicking the button, the screen reads Passphrase:, which further implies that the user is ENTERING a passphrase that will be used for encryption. Yes, the dialog box does say Enter your user password at the Passphrase prompt., but as a rule, people speed-read dialog boxes, and so the overall impression can easily be the one many users have expressed here. I know that I believed I was being asked for a passphrase, which i picked out, dutifully wrote down and then entered. I was shocked that I was only asked for it once- normally you're required to enter a new password twice to eliminate spelling errors. I received an error message, but I thought that there was an error with the program, and that I'd need to track the bug down later, but I didn't need to rush. After all, since my files hadn't been encrypted yet, I could take care of this at my leisure. SUGGESTED FIX: I'd suggest something that puts people in the right frame of mind from the outset, a la: Congratulations! Your home directory has been encrypted, and your personal data is secure in the event of theft or loss. Usually your directory is unlocked with your user password, but if you ever need to manually recover this directory, you will need this passphrase. Please print or write it down and store it in a safe location. To see your passphrase now, click the button below. You will be required to enter your login password. If you need to record your passphrase in the future, just run the ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase command in a terminal. === See my passphrase now | Close without viewing passphrase | === *** I suggest that a change should be made to the ecryptfs-unwrap- passphrase command so that it requests Password for $USER. If an incorrect password is given, it should say Sorry, try again. This is the expected behavior based on invoking sudo, and it's going to confuse the user to switch behavior on them. -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Filed bug 495339 for the issue of passphrase confirmation. -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
agreed. My passphrase is generally 20+ characters, and if I'm understanding this, a typo here renders my data gone :-O Heck - I'd be OK with THREE confirmations for something this paramount. -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
You don't mention that you've added passphrase confirmation above. Is there a separate bug for this? Not doing so is an accident waiting to happen. -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Does your commit fix that path issue as well? -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Martin- I don't understand your question ... I changed the ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase binary. If zero arguments are passed, it looks for a file called $HOME/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase. If this file exists, then it will prompt you for a passphrase to decrypt this file. If that file does not exist, the usage statement is printed. I think this should be more user-friendly. :-Dustin -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
** Changed in: ecryptfs Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
This bug was fixed in the package ecryptfs-utils - 75-0ubuntu1 --- ecryptfs-utils (75-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low [ Dustin Kirkland ] * debian/rules: drop hackery that moves stuff /usr/share/ecryptfs-utils * src/utils/mount.ecryptfs_private.c: update inline documentation * debian/changelog, src/libecryptfs/cmd_ln_parser.c, src/libecryptfs/key_management.c, src/pam_ecryptfs/pam_ecryptfs.c, src/utils/ecryptfs_add_passphrase.c, src/utils/ecryptfs_insert_wrapped_passphrase_into_keyring.c, src/utils/ecryptfs_rewrap_passphrase.c, src/utils/ecryptfs_unwrap_passphrase.c, src/utils/ecryptfs_wrap_passphrase.c: silence some useless logging, LP: #313330 * include/ecryptfs.h, libecryptfs/key_management.c, utils/ecryptfs_insert_wrapped_passphrase_into_keyring.c, utils/ecryptfs_unwrap_passphrase.c: if the file to unwrap is unspecified, try to use the default ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase before bailing out, LP: #359997 * src/utils/ecryptfs-setup-private: unix_chkpwd is not always present (eg, gentoo), LP: #332341 [ Tyler Hicks ] * doc/manpage/ecryptfs.7: ecryptfs_encrypted_view option desription was wrong LP: #328761 [ Michal Hlavinka ] * decision_graph.c: fix uninitialized return code * mount.ecryptfs.c: don't pass verbosity option to kernel [ anrxc Dustin Kirkland ] * doc/Makefile.am, src/desktop/Makefile.am: fix automake installation from /usr/share to /usr/share/ecryptfs-utils [ Daniel Baumann Dustin Kirkland ] * debian/rules, debian/control: sync differences between Debian Ubuntu's packaging [ Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis ] * src/key_mod/ecryptfs_key_mod_gpg.c, src/key_mod/ecryptfs_key_mod_pkcs11_helper.c: fix implicit declations [ Frédéric Guihéry ] * key_mod/ecryptfs_key_mod_tspi.c, utils/ecryptfs_generate_tpm_key.c: the SRK password should be set to 20 bytes of NULL (wellknown password), in order for different tools to request key protection with the Storage Root Key -- Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@ubuntu.com Sat, 02 May 2009 11:44:56 -0500 ** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Released -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
Committed revision 391. ** Changed in: ecryptfs Status: Triaged = Fix Committed -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
When that dialogue popped up for me after booting my freshly installed Jaunty with encrypted LVM, I ran into a problem similar to François's (Hi, btw): --- ~$ ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase Usage: ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase [file] or printf %s wrapping passphrase | ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase [file] - --- Looks like it didn't find it's way to ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase by default, where the file actually was. -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
I just had this today... It also got me really confused. The popup clearly says: - Please print or write it down and store it in a safe location. You can run the ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase command now to do this. Enter your user password at the Passphrase prompt. - So I did... - $ ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase Passphrase: [password] Warning: Using default salt value (undefined in ~/.ecryptfsrc) Error: Unwrapping passphrase failed [-5] Info: Check the system log for more information from libecryptfs - It should be clearly indicated the command to run is: - ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase $HOME/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase - -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 359997] Re: Improve record-your-passphrase dialog
** Summary changed: - after update, prompted with Record your encryption passphrase; get no confirmation from terminal + Improve record-your-passphrase dialog -- Improve record-your-passphrase dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
