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 -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt