ecryptfs-recover-private does not accept provate-dir path on command line

Bug #1806743 reported by James E. LaBarre
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Bug Description

The man page for ecryptfs-recover-private specifies that the command will accept a path to a specific private directory. As it shows at the dop of the manpage:

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SYNOPSIS
       ecryptfs-recover-private [--rw] [encrypted private dir]
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This suggests I should be able to provide the utility with a path to a specific ecryptfs directory, and the utility should immediately load that one specific path, and not search for other instances.

Instead, regardless of what you may have given it for parameters, the utility will proceed with doing a search of your ENTIRE system, even though you already know the location you want it to mount.

The proper process should be to do a search of the system ONLY if it hasn't been given a fully-defined path. And if it has, it should check that path and fail out if it has not been able to find an encrypted directory there.

Tags: ecryptfs
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