ERROR: Could not mount private ecryptfs directory
After ecryptfs-
What might be causing the error?
I followed the "How to Remove an Encrypted Private Directory Setup" and then the "Setup Your Encrypted Private Directory" instructions on https:/
The Terminal session is below:
Remove Encrypted Private Directory Setup:
$ sudo -i
$ cd /home/wolf/
$ ecryptfs-
$ chmod 700 Private
$ rm -rf Private .Private .ecryptfs
Setup Encrypted Private Directory:
$ apt-get install ecryptfs-utils
$ ecryptfs-
Enter your login passphrase: (for Ubuntu)
Enter your mount passphrase: (for eCryptfs)
Enter your mount passphrase (again):
*******
YOU SHOULD RECORD YOUR MOUNT PASSPHRASE AND STORE IT IN A SAFE LOCATION.
ecryptfs-
THIS WILL BE REQUIRED IF YOU NEED TO RECOVER YOUR DATA AT A LATER TIME.
*******
Done configuring.
Testing mount/write/
Inserted auth tok with sig [19ed9549e2d29b0f] into the user session keyring
Inserted auth tok with sig [3630ff94344fc1a5] into the user session keyring
fopen: No such file or directory
keyctl_search: Success
Perhaps try the interactive 'ecryptfs-
ERROR: Could not mount private ecryptfs directory
$ ls -a private Private .Private
ls: cannot access private: No such file or directory
Private:
. .. Access-
.Private:
. ..
At this point I started over and got the same error again.
I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction.
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