Hi, of course, you should always have a header backup (FAQ item 6.2), but in principle there should not be any problem. Slot 0 is only special in that it is first in disk and has the highest risk of bein overwritten by accident. Regards, Arno On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 18:19:19 CET, Greenberg, Aria wrote: > I've been researching something for a long time now, and I haven't had > much luck getting an answer, so I thought I'd ask this mailing list... > My question is regarding deleting a passphrase in a key slot for a luks > encrypted device. So I have two key slots enabled ( key slot 0 and key > slot 1). I know the passphrases for both and I know that they both work > when I reboot the my host. I want to remove key slot 0 though. I would > leave slot 1 alone, of course. Do you think removing slot 0 will cause > problems? I've been trying to research this and it's difficult to tell > whether this will break things(I thought there might be something > significant about slot 0). > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > 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
