Martin,
Is there anything we can do on the desktop side, to keep people from
choosing auto login if their system is setup for encrypted home?
That's easy enough to test. Just look for ~/.ecryptfs/auto-mount.
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Its a logical contradiction, mate.
If you choose to have encrypted folder, you want security.
If you want autologin, you dont give a s**t about security.
Anyways, for decrypting the folder, YOU NEED THE PASSWORD, which must be
supplied one way or another.
So think about it.
Cheers,
On
Confirmed for Maverick! Probably you may wish to rethink your opinion
/usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow
ecryptfs behaves absolutely in correct manner, as it as it has to
interpret this action as an attempted burglary.
Not really much more to add exept that it has cost a few hours of my
that's not a gdm issue
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Invalid
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Encrypted Private Directory is not automatically mounted when using gdm
auto-login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284443
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I don't think it makes sense at all in gdm:
- You do not actually see gdm if you have autologin enabled.
- Once you installed your system that way, the damage is done.
IMHO it should be pointed out right at the place when the user can still
do something about it to not break it: The autologin
Okay, per discussion with pitti in IRC, I think the proper solution
would involve:
* changing the symlink in an un-mounted ~/Private directory to point
to a wrapper script, instead of /sbin/mount.ecryptfs_private
* having that wrapper script:
* first try to perform the mount
* if the
** Summary changed:
- ecryptfs does not work with gdm auto-login
+ Encrypted Private Directory is not automatically mounted when using gdm
auto-login
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Encrypted Private Directory is not automatically mounted when using gdm
auto-login
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284443
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** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
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