On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:18:25PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > I have debian lenny on a server with full disk encryption (the guided > partitioning option) and an external usb WD Mybook that is also > encrypted with dmcrypt/LUKS. > > I just formatted the server to install and try out CentOS. Then I went > to the Ubuntu Wiki to see how I can access the USB drive on another > computer, and I started reading about keys etc etc. Have I just > overwritten my key to the usb drive whilst formatting the server? > > I thought that HAL and Gnome had the ability to auto detect encrypted > devices and prompt for passphrase?? I thought all I needed was the > passphrase to be able to access the usb drive on another computer? > > Please tell me ive not just lost all my data!
Can't tell you that. Hopefully someone can come up with an answer but I doubt it. Where are your backups? FYI, I encrypt my backups onto an unencrypted drive. My backups are tarballs piped through OpenSSL's enc command. It is portable across any computer that can use SSL, gzip, and tar. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
