Hi Luca! > Can you tell us the file name (and permission) of file descriptor '5' Of course! $ groups disk dialout fax voice cdrom floppy tape sudo audio dip video games users lpadmin usb scanner camera fuse # ls -l /dev/mapper/ crw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 10, 63 2007-04-20 18:13 control open("/dev/mapper/control", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 5 open("/proc/devices", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7 fb2000 read(6, "Character devices:\n 1 mem\n 2 p"..., 1024) = 441 read(6, "", 1024) = 0 close(6) = 0 munmap(0xb7fb2000, 4096) = 0 ioctl(5, DM_VERSION, 0x80d5c80) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) open("/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=123180, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 123180, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 6, 0) = 0xb7bd6000 close(6) = 0 ioctl(5, DM_VERSION, 0x80d5c80) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) close(5) = 0 Do you think I have a chance to get it working my way without sudo? Thanks Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx