On 08/17/2011 01:44 PM ken wrote: > Having searched through the archives and read the FAQ list, I know this > isn't going to be easy, but I have to give it a try anyway. Yes, I'm > yet another guy who forgot his LUKS password. And I encrypted both the > system and data LVs (when I first installed CentOS/Linux). After a > couple days trying out various passphrases (going through my three > chances and then having to shut down and restart the machine to get > another three chances) and not succeeding, I removed the drive and put > it into a drive enclosure, then attached it (via USB) to an older but > working system. Now I can read only the /boot partition of that drive.... Over the weekend I read a bunch more documentation, got a spare drive connected, and on it created an encrypted partition containing a Linux LVMed filesystem (ext3 if it matters... same as the on the disk I'm trying to get back). I did all this to test and refine a script I created so I can input possible/likely passphrases and see which of them might work. My script works fine on the one encrypted partition I created on the test disk. I have a concern though. When booting the disk I'm locked out of, it would prompt me twice... because, as explained above, the partition contained two encrypted logical volumes... so I was prompted for passphrases for each. In fact, if I failed to input the correct passphrase for the first LV, I'd still be prompted for the passphrase for the second LV. When I do "cryptsetup isLuks /dev/sda5" the error code (0) tells me I've got an encrypted device... but just one. Using luksDump likewise shows just one instance of something (?) encrypted. Why is this, when I know there to be *two* encrypted LVs on that partition/device? Most importantly, when I run echo -n "$PASS PHRASE" |/sbin/cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb5 name1 is cryptsetup going to be talking to one or the other encrypted LVs...? and if so, which one? Thanks^128, ken _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
