Passwords do not get "dropped". Were there updates? Is the locale still the same? Also refer to FAQ item 1.2, last Paragraph. Unless the LUKS header was damaged, a changed character encoding is the most likely reason for this behavior. Arno On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 20:42:21 CEST, yarro ayte wrote: > I just spent 5 weeks in the hospital. Came back and found that > cryptsetup luksOpen on my offline machine doesn't recognize the > password I've been using for the past 5 years... > > WTF...??? > > Help, please!! > > Yarro > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato 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
