On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:33:30PM -0400, ken wrote: [...] > Yves, thanks for replying. > > This setup worked fine for years without changing anything on it. I'm > fairly certain that there are two logical volumes on /dev/sda5, both > encrypted. As said, when I booted the system up, I was prompted for two > passphrases (one for each filesystem). > > > Does this tell us anything? > > # cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sda5 > LUKS header information for /dev/sda5 > > Version: 1 > Cipher name: aes [...] It does. /dev/sda5 has a LUKS container at the start with one passphrase active. For password breaking attempts, it does not matter that there are some LVM mappings. I advise to just ignore any LVM stuff for the moment and to run your password guessing attempts against /dev/sda5. You will possibly not get you data, but the password checking will be good, unless that thing was created using decrypt_derived or the like. I doubt that, as then you should have been asked only for one password. Once you have the password recovered, you should be able to do a normal boot. 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
