Re: recovering forgotten password

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 09:35:13PM +0200, Arno Wagner wrote:
[...]
> To try a password, use somethin like
>   cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3

Needs a device of course, so 
    cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3 e1
for /dev/mapper/e1


> If you need enough tries to automatize this, you can
> read the passphrase from file (or stdin) with something 
> like this
>   cryptsetup --key-file=<some file> luksOpen /dev/sda3

Same as above:
   cryptsetup --key-file=<some file> luksOpen /dev/sda3  e1

and with reading from stdin

   cryptsetup --key-file="-" luksOpen /dev/loop0 e1 

Arno
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