Cannot delete a single user ~/Private folder

Kill the cat!!!!! HowTo for a specific user:

The user must typ in a terminal -> "umount.ecryptfs_private"
Root must typ in a terminal:
-> cd /home/<username>
-> sudo rm -rf Private .Private .ecryptfs

that's it

You don't have to do this as root, you can do this as the
non-privileged user with:

$ ecryptfs-umount-private
$ chmod 700 Private
$ rm -rf ~/.ecryptfs ~/.Private ~/Private

Understanding, of course, that you're blowing away any and all data in
those directories.

I don't think that I'm going to provide a utility to do this.

However, I could perhaps create a utility, ecryptfs-delete-private, as
you suggest, that prints these 3 steps to the screen, with appropriate
safeguard warnings. Would this suffice?

:-Dusitn

I have documented this procedure here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory

:-Dustin

I'll create an ecryptfs-delete-private utility that prints the instructions to screen.

:-Dustin

@Dustin:
Yor message regarding the HowTo - I added another bug-report #299216,
because the command "ecryptfs-umount-private" dosn't work.

Fix committed upstream. Added a --undo option to ecryptfs-setup-private.

See:
 * http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mhalcrow/ecryptfs-utils.git;a=commit;h=934992f477643abe46daa21eee7de3e77f73c2cb

:-Dustin

This bug was fixed in the package ecryptfs-utils - 66-2ubuntu1

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ecryptfs-utils (66-2ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable,
    (LP: #259631, #293433, #286265, #247421, #294888, #298421)
  * Remaining changes:
    - debian/ecryptfs-utils.postinst: handle pam-auth-update (Bug: #506172)
    - debian/rules:
      + keep the dpatch infrastructure around, as we'll likely
        need it again at some point soon
      + install the desktop, readme, and pam-auth-update files ()
    - debian/ecryptfs-utils.install: install the desktop, readme shared files
      (Bug: #506172)
    - debian/control:
      + keep the dpatch build dep
      + depend on libpam-runtime (Bug: #506172)
    - debian/ecryptfs-utils.prerm: remove pam-auth-update configuration
      (Bug: #506172)
    - debian/ecryptfs-mount-private.txt: readme to install in unmounted
      private dir (Bug: #506172)
    - debian/ecryptfs-mount-private.desktop: desktop link to install in
      unmounted private dir (Bug: #506172)
    - debian/ecryptfs-utils.dirs: usr share install dirs (Bug: #506172)
    - debian/ecryptfs-utils.pam-auth-update: pam stack configuration
      (Bug: #506172)

ecryptfs-utils (66-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removing auth-client-config support, no longer used.
  * Adding ecryptfs-utils recommends to keyutils.
  * Building without ssl, ecryptfs_key_mod_openssl.c has incompatible
    license (GPL-2+).
  * Building without pkcs11 helper, ecryptfs_key_mod_pkcs11_helper.c
    links against openssl and has incompatible license (GPL-2+).
  * Building without pkcs11 helper, ecryptfs_key_mod_tspi.c links
    against openssl and has incompatible license (GPL-2+).

ecryptfs-utils (66-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Manually adding second line of the commit message when merging
    upstream version 65 to changelog.
  * Merging upstream version 66.
  * Adding ecryptfs-utils.postinst to create /var/lib/ecryptfs on
    package installation time.

ecryptfs-utils (65-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Merging upstream version 65:
    - Adds --wrapping option to ecryptfs-setup-private command to use an
      independent wrapping passphrase, different from the login passphrase
      (Closes: #505008).
  * Removing pam-doc.dpatch, went upstream.
  * Adding build-depends to swig.
  * Adding build-depends to python-dev.
  * Including python bindings in libecryptfs0.

ecryptfs-utils (64-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Replacing obsolete dh_clean -k with dh_prep.
  * Adding patch from Osamu Aoki <email address hidden> to update
    ecryptfs-pam-doc.txt contents with s/Confidential/Private/
    (Closes: #504934).
  * Updating homepage and download location in control and copyright
    (Closes: #504930).
  * Updating author information in copyright.
  * Installing desktop shortcut and readme to /usr/share/ecryptfs-utils.
    Together with the fixes of upstream version 64, this interactively prompts
    for passwords now (Closes: #504370).

ecryptfs-utils (64-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adding build-depends to python (Closes: #504719).

ecryptfs-utils (64-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removing sbin-path.dpatch, not needed anymore.
  * Building with --enable-static, ...