ecryptfs requires a full logged in root user to work

Hi,

I'm not sure what kind of problem you encountered.

I know that if I compile the utils source code and execute $ecryptfs-setup-private, it will go wrong because we do not set "s" bit on the /usr/sbin/mount.ecryptfs_private binary. I have to set that bit manually.

Is that what you want to say?

Jason

A test you can do to confirm what was reported.

1. Remove the suid bit in that binary.
2. Try to use the binary and things will fail as expected.
3. Try to elevate privileges first with su,sudo or pkexec and this will unexpectedly fail and the reported bug is here.
4. The only way i know of how to work around this is to elevate privileges through "su -c". This means in my application,i first raise privileges through pkexec[1] and then call "su -c"[2] while already elevated to work around the issue.

[1] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/sirikali/blob/b1a61a3194f0af546a8c069b359b4467d3baf343/src/siritask.cpp#L123

[2] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/sirikali/blob/b1a61a3194f0af546a8c069b359b4467d3baf343/src/siritask.cpp#L99

Correction in step 4 above,the "su" command should be "su - -c".