When mounting ecryptfs the following error occurs "Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When mounting ecryptfs the following error occurs:
"Unable to link the KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING into the KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING; there is something wrong with your kernel keyring. Did you build key retention support into your kernel?"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • ecryptfs

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