[dm-crypt] dropped passwords?

[dm-crypt] dropped passwords?

[yarro ayte]

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

Re: [dm-crypt] dropped passwords?

[Arno Wagner]

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
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> dm-crypt mailing list
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