Re: GELI recovery
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:40:50AM -0400, Rat Paranoid wrote: Dear All, Dear Mr. Rat Paranoid, I badly need your help! I've used GELI encrypted partition on my notebook for 5 month but now I can't mount it on startup... it seems that I forgot the password (but how is it possible if I enter it each time I switch my notebook?!) or something is wrong with GELI anyway when I created that partition I also created backup key file as it was suggested by the manual... Now I've tried to mount the partition with that key but it keeps telling me that the password is wrong. %( Is it possible to recover the bloody thing with that backup key?! Your help would be much appreciated! You can provide us your dmesg debug output by adding the following lines to /boot/loader.conf: kern.geom.eli.debug=3 GELI(8) says: Debug level of the ELI GEOM class. This can be set to a number between 0 and 3 inclusive. If set to 0, minimal debug informa- tion is printed. If set to 3, the maximum amount of debug infor- mation is printed. For yourself you can add: kern.geom.eli.visible.passphrase=1 GELI(8) says: If set to 1, the passphrase entered on boot (before the root file system is mounted) will be visible. This possibility should be used with caution as the entered passphrase can be logged and exposed via dmesg(8). This variable should be set in /boot/loader.conf. Good luck. -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. pgpyD6rl6UKp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GELI recovery
I can't attach the partition through geli attach. It keeps asking the password and teling that it is wrong On 4/25/07, Karsten Rothemund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is the key realy gone or can the encrypted partition just not be mounted? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GELI recovery
I've turned on debugging and visible password with: kern.geom.eli.debug=3 kern.geom.eli.visible_passphrase=1 but have nothing in the dmesg concerning my ad0s2 partition and it keeps telling Wrong key for ad0s2. May be I should fsck it before doing a geli attachment? -- Alexey S Kuzmenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0x93AD13DD (C9ED F720 D693 E707 571A E49A 0173 2F04 93AD 13DD) nic-hdl - ASK1-RIPE ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GELI recovery
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:47:26PM -0400, Alexey Kuzmenko wrote: I've turned on debugging and visible password with: kern.geom.eli.debug=3 kern.geom.eli.visible_passphrase=1 Did you make a reboot? but have nothing in the dmesg concerning my ad0s2 partition and it keeps telling Wrong key for ad0s2. May be I should fsck it before doing a geli attachment? No, of course not. You have to attach the geli device before you can perform any action on it (in your example a fsck). Otherwise you will completely destroy your crypto device. If you really have forgotten your password nobody can help you. -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. pgp3fcrezou9o.pgp Description: PGP signature
GELI recovery
Dear All, I badly need your help! I've used GELI encrypted partition on my notebook for 5 month but now I can't mount it on startup... it seems that I forgot the password (but how is it possible if I enter it each time I switch my notebook?!) or something is wrong with GELI anyway when I created that partition I also created backup key file as it was suggested by the manual... Now I've tried to mount the partition with that key but it keeps telling me that the password is wrong. %( Is it possible to recover the bloody thing with that backup key?! Your help would be much appreciated! Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
