Thanks, that is very good you already implemented the path to be
configurable.

The issue here is more about the particular default, though.

People using the "user private group" scheme (used and advocated for
user collaboration in debian/ubuntu system, but still broken due to some
minor bugs) use "priv", "private" or "Private" to indicate
subdirectories with permissions that make anything within them private
to them or the group in the filesystem.

Now, if people start using ecryptfs and ecryptfs uses "Private" as
default instead of say "Encrypted", the ecryptfs feature doesn't look
very distinguishable or descriptive from the users point of view
browsing his filesystem.

Thats why I'd suggest ecryptfs to default to a more crypt oriented
default directory name, it should be correctly describing what it does
for all cases.

Of course granting only "private" permissions for the on-disk-encrypted
"Encrypted" directory in the filesystem would continue to be a sane
default.

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The default ~/Private name is not very clear
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575096
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