On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:35:18PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I'm confused. Can you not just enter the passphrase for the encrypted > > volume and unlock it? Or is there something I'm missing here that > > likely applies to my own encrypted system... > > > > I thought that if you had a passphrase key in one of the luks slots > > then that's all you need to unlock the partition. There are no _other_ > > keys needed. > > > > maybe I'm wrong. > > > > A > > > that's what I thought! Maybe I misunderstood? I thought I could plug > in my external USB drive into another PC and as long as I had the > passphrase I could mount it, but I tried it and Gnome did ask for the > passphrase but the volume did not mount. I have not investigated why > yet, but my first thought was that I had done something incredibly > stupid by formatting the host PC, and that's when I mailed the list.
get annoying gnome out of the way and try it from the cli. cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/path/to/usb/device crypt-usb enter passphrase mount /dev/mapper/crypt-usb /mnt/temp and see what happens A
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