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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #307019
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 307019

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 307019] Re: ecryptfs Private directory not mounted after changing password in users-admin

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