From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] recovering forgotten password
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:40:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110817194028.GA17597@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110817193513.GB17228@tansi.org>
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 09:35:13PM +0200, Arno Wagner wrote:
[...]
> To try a password, use somethin like
> cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3
Needs a device of course, so
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3 e1
for /dev/mapper/e1
> If you need enough tries to automatize this, you can
> read the passphrase from file (or stdin) with something
> like this
> cryptsetup --key-file=<some file> luksOpen /dev/sda3
Same as above:
cryptsetup --key-file=<some file> luksOpen /dev/sda3 e1
and with reading from stdin
cryptsetup --key-file="-" luksOpen /dev/loop0 e1
Arno
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 17:44 [dm-crypt] recovering forgotten password ken
2011-08-17 19:35 ` Arno Wagner
2011-08-17 19:40 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2011-08-22 14:48 ` [dm-crypt] recovering forgotten passwords for 2 LVs ken
2011-08-22 16:19 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2011-08-22 22:33 ` ken
2011-08-22 22:53 ` Milan Broz
2011-08-23 0:23 ` ken
2011-08-23 7:43 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2011-08-23 9:35 ` ken
2011-08-23 11:59 ` ken
2011-08-23 12:57 ` Arno Wagner
2011-08-23 13:39 ` ken
2011-08-22 17:16 ` Arno Wagner
2011-08-23 13:17 ` ken
2011-08-23 13:47 ` Arno Wagner
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