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sitwano

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Registered: 2017-07-07

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[solved] Can't automount home after encrypting it using ecryptfs

I've followed the archwiki page for encrypting my home directory at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ECryptfs. Please note that I've installed arch linux in such a way that I have a seperate home partition to start with (useful for distro-hopping I guess).

So here's what I did:

modprobe ecryptfs
ecryptfs-migrate-home -u username

everything went successfully. Then without rebooting, I edited the file as stated in the wiki

/etc/pam.d/system-auth

Then I logoff and login again and run

mount

and I don't see what I'm supposed to see.
Then I rebooted.

Now the problem is that when I login normally, it doesn't let me into the desktop. So then I drop into the terminal, login with my username and password. I get the following message after login:

Signature not found in user keyring
Perhaps try the interactive 'ecryptfs-mount-private'

So I run that and it asks for the password again and goes fine. Then I am able to drop into the GUI and login normally. However, if I logoff inside the terminal and drop back into the GUI the login doesn't work again.

I think I've followed the arch wiki exactly and I'm not sure what to do now. Can someone pls help me how to automount without me having to type ecryptfs-mount-private everytime in the shell before I login into the GUI.

The following is my system-auth file:

auth      required  pam_unix.so     try_first_pass nullok
auth	  required  pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap
auth      optional  pam_permit.so
auth      required  pam_env.so

account   required  pam_unix.so
account   optional  pam_permit.so
account   required  pam_time.so

password  optional  pam_ecryptfs.so
password  required  pam_unix.so     try_first_pass nullok sha512 shadow
password  optional  pam_permit.so

session   required  pam_limits.so
session   required  pam_unix.so
session   optional  pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap
session   optional  pam_permit.so

edit: Solved the problem by following a solution on the ubuntu forum https://askubuntu.com/questions/602360/ … er-keyring

Last edited by sitwano (2017-07-18 12:45:51)