On Fri Aug 28 18:21:08 UTC 2009 Kees Cook wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:33:11PM -0000, James Westby wrote: > > I'm pretty certain that If we just pass the new password to pam then it > > can do the rest. I belive that using "sudo passwd <user>" doesn't break > > eCryptfs. > > Unfortunately, AFAIK, that does break it -- it must be the user themselves > calling "passwd" since then PAM will prompt for the old password to > pass through the PAM stack. eCryptfs (and potentially other things) > use it to decrypt the mount passphrase, and then re-encrypt it with the > new PAM password.
Ah, my apologies. So changing gst to use pam buys us nothing over just special casing the current user? Thanks, James -- ecryptfs Private directory not mounted after changing password in users-admin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307019 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
