From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] valid passphrase not accepted
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:57:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101027185754.GA25811@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101027162301.GA11949@fancy-poultry.org>
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 06:23:01PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 27.10.2010, Rick Moritz wrote:
>
> > Considering the amount of traffic on the list regarding issues like this,
> > maybe future versions of dm-crypt should issue an annoying warning when
> > creating LUKS-format mapped devices, about how a backup of the header is
> > STRONGLY recommended
>
> No, it's not. Read the FAQ, especially item nr.2 and the answer
> from Clemens:
>
> http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=LUKSFaq
Aehm, that is the old, obsolete FAQ. You should not reference
it anymore. The current FAQ is at
http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
and in the cryptsetup source package.
Arno
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 12:15 [dm-crypt] valid passphrase not accepted ts0
2010-10-27 14:01 ` Arno Wagner
2010-10-27 14:39 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-10-27 15:56 ` Arno Wagner
2010-10-27 16:07 ` Rick Moritz
2010-10-27 16:16 ` Arno Wagner
2010-10-27 16:23 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-10-27 18:57 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
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