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