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ecryptfs-utils package

  1. Bug #284443
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 284443

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: ecryptfs does not work with gdm auto-login

The encrypted private directory should absolutely NOT be mounted on automatic, password-less logins. That would entirely defeat its purpose. In fact, auto logins should never be used on any system where you care at all about security.

I'll document this in the EncryptedPrivateDirectory wiki page, and eventually in the ecryptfs-setup-private manpage in a subsequent upstream release.

I'm not going to clutter the ecryptfs dialogs with this information. I'll leave it to the gdmsetup developers to decide whether they want to include a note.

:-Dustin