Re: 15.1-BETA1, encrypted homedir is of user root

Reply: Marek Zarychta : "Re: 15.1-BETA1, encrypted homedir is of user root"
In reply to: Lars Tunkrans : "Re: 15.1-BETA1, encrypted homedir is of user root"
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From: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws>
Date: Sat, 02 May 2026 16:48:50 UTC

Op zaterdag 2 mei 2026 17:03:01 (+02:00) schreef Lars Tunkrans:

> hi ,
> 
>     I  experienced  the  same  issue     with   freebsd 15.0
> 
> regards
> 
>    //Lars
> 
> On 5/2/26 16:46, Ronald Klop wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed 15.1-BETA1 in a VirtualBox on Aach64.
> > I choose an encrypted homedir when adding a user via the installer.
> > The homedir of the user is owned by 'root:wheel' which is not the user:group of my user.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ronald.
> >

Ok, I now understand more of what went wrong. The encrypted homedir is not mounted.

# zfs get mounted zroot/home/ronald
NAME               PROPERTY  VALUE    SOURCE
zroot/home/ronald  mounted   no       -

I guess I need to put the passphrase somewhere.

Oh, in 2022 people had the same problems.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/zfs-for-encrypted-home-directory-decrypted-at-login.86819/

Apparently I need to do something with pam_zfs_key in /etc/pam.d/*.
Maybe a nice project for the Foundation Laptop Project [1].

Regards,
Ronald.

[1] https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/