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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dropped passwords?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:14:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141016201446.GA10309@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5440118D.2040304@gmail.com>

Passwords do not get "dropped". Were there updates?
Is the locale still the same? Also refer to 
FAQ item 1.2, last Paragraph. Unless the LUKS
header was damaged, a changed character encoding
is the most likely reason for this behavior.

Arno

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 20:42:21 CEST, yarro ayte wrote:
> I just spent 5 weeks in the hospital. Came back and found that
> cryptsetup luksOpen on my offline machine doesn't recognize the
> password I've been using for the past 5 years...
> 
> WTF...???
> 
> Help, please!!
> 
>    Yarro
> _______________________________________________
> dm-crypt mailing list
> dm-crypt@saout.de
> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-16 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-16 18:42 [dm-crypt] dropped passwords? yarro ayte
2014-10-16 20:14 ` Arno Wagner [this message]

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