Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils
Observed with ecryptfs-untils 53-1ubuntu8.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Set up your box so that you can login via ssh using public key authentication
2) Set up an encrypted private folder for yourself
3) Logout locally so that the encrypted private folder is unmounted
4) Login remotely using your ssh key
What happens:
The encrypted private directory is not mounted automatically and can't be
mounted manually using ecryptfs-mount-private because the key has not been
unwrapped.
What should happen:
I understand why the above happens, and I appreciate that the ideal solution
(automount of the encrypted private folder in this case) may well not be
feasible because of security considerations, but I think that
ecryptfs-mount-private should really ask for your password instead of erroring
out if the key for the private folder has not been unwrapped at login time for
whatever reason.
I wouldn't even mind if I have to write something like ecryptfs-mount-private
--ask-password to have it happen, if that must be...
** Affects: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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No way to mount the encrypted private directory when logging in over ssh using
public key auth
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268014
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