[X2Go-Dev] Major issue with users' mounts and encrypted (ecryptfs) homes in suspended sessions

[Arnold Krille]

Hi,

On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:39:26 +0200 Eugene San <eugenesan at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I would like to report a major problem affecting people using home
> folder encryption (ecryptfs) and miscellaneous FUSE mounts.
> When session suspended, user's folders got unmounted.
> As result applications and services left in undefined state and that
> might lead to severe results.
> In addition to banal crashes, dropbox and friends might decide that
> data was deleted locally and sync that to cloud!
> 
> I guess above related to the fact all pam sessions are closed during
> suspend. Any ideas how to fix that?

I don't know how your system is configured, but here pam only unmounts
the encrypted homedir when no more apps are accessing the directory.
(I once had to track down gnome-keyring preventing the unmount.)

Have fun,

Arnold
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