Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:48:55 +0200 From: Oliver Peter <hoschi@mouhaha.de> To: Rat Paranoid <paranoid.rat@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GELI recovery Message-ID: <20070425084854.GJ1322@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> In-Reply-To: <aa518fe40704242140u5cdd4cd2l3727367ab493f071@mail.gmail.com> References: <aa518fe40704242140u5cdd4cd2l3727367ab493f071@mail.gmail.com>
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--pE2VAHO2njSJCslu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:40:50AM -0400, Rat Paranoid wrote: > Dear All, Dear Mr. "Rat Paranoid", =20 > I badly need your help! I've used GELI encrypted partition on my > notebook for 5 month but now I can't mount it on startup... it seems > that I forgot the password (but how is it possible if I enter it each > time I switch my notebook?!) or something is wrong with GELI >=20 > anyway when I created that partition I also created "backup key" file > as it was suggested by the manual... Now I've tried to mount the > partition with that key but it keeps telling me that the password is > wrong. %( >=20 > Is it possible to recover the bloody thing with that "backup key"?! >=20 > Your help would be much appreciated! You can provide us your dmesg debug output by adding the following lines to /boot/loader.conf: kern.geom.eli.debug=3D3 GELI(8) says: Debug level of the ELI GEOM class. This can be set to a number between 0 and 3 inclusive. If set to 0, minimal debug informa- tion is printed. If set to 3, the maximum amount of debug infor- mation is printed. For yourself you can add: kern.geom.eli.visible.passphrase=3D1 GELI(8) says: If set to 1, the passphrase entered on boot (before the root file system is mounted) will be visible. This possibility should be used with caution as the entered passphrase can be logged and exposed via dmesg(8). This variable should be set in /boot/loader.conf. Good luck. --=20 Oliver PETER, email: hoschi@mouhaha.de, ICQ# 113969174 "Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave." --pE2VAHO2njSJCslu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkYvFfYACgkQ6LH/IUVtaI9sjwCfczzuvCJyNg7R1H/d51qn2KSa vd8AoM+JZpys1TUvxp9JZ8Rn+K1D73VZ =sv8x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pE2VAHO2njSJCslu--
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