Hi I have no idea how to crack the passphrase, but just want to add, that I once knew both the password and the passphrase, and still could not decrypt the directory despite using two tutorials, until I have found ecryptfs-recover-private by Dustin Kirkland. So perhaps you wrote down the pasphrase correctly. Unfortunately passphrase can not be disabled even if not needed in the first place - I used ecryptfs to protect from deletion etc., and not for encryption, a misuse that does not work anyway, as bad credentials still allow to delete files, and even turned out to corrupt the filesystem. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ecryptfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html