In grub/menu.lst file my /boot partition is a line like this: password --md5 $1$Mb9vxXPV$pAbcdTxr4Twh32XXgns2/ The last bit is 35 characters long. Is this the hash digest of the passphrase? Is the final slash character (/) just another character or is it in some way especially significant? tnx _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt