Error adding user encrypt

Asked by jhon60

hello,
i have ubuntu 10.4

and i type:
sudo adduser --encrypt-home test1

bat
returne

"cannot get encryptfs version, ecryptfs kernel module not loaded ?"

Thank

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) said :
#1

sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils

Then:

lsmod | grep ecryptfs

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jhon60 (jhonb60) said :
#2

Hello,

thank you for your reponse immediately
.....
Here's what I typed from the terminal:
root# sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils
Reading package lists....Done
Building state information....Done
building dependency tree
reading state information...Done
ecryptfs-utils is already the newest version.
0 upgrade, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root# lsmod | grep ecryptfs
root#
root#

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) said :
#3

how about:

dmesg | grep ecryptfs

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jhon60 (jhonb60) said :
#4

Hello,

Here's what I typed from the terminal:

root# dmesg | grep ecryptfs
root#

thank you for your support

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) said :
#5

What kernel are you running?

uname -a

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jhon60 (jhonb60) said :
#6

hello,

root# uname -a
Linux SERVER 2.6.32-311-ec2 #23-ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 11:14:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root#

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) said :
#7

Apparently that kernel does not have ecryptfs support. What
distro/version are you running?

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jhon60 (jhonb60) said :
#8

hello,
I have :
Ubuntu 10.4 lucid

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