Quoting Andrew Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>> LOL, this is my biggest fear - forgetting the key to an encrypted
>> file/disk. I forgot one the other day for some of my personal
>> information encrypted using bcrypt - I had to ring my InLaws and as
>> them to pos
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> LOL, this is my biggest fear - forgetting the key to an encrypted
> file/disk. I forgot one the other day for some of my personal
> information encrypted using bcrypt - I had to ring my InLaws and as
> them to post my backup disks back to me!
Posting unenc
Tony,
Quoting Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Alternatively, encrypt your file systems and disks! Any would be hacker
> would then need the encryption key before doing any of the above!
>
> (Well, she could format the disks, but would not get any information
> from them. You need backups for th
Matt,
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Indeed, if you have a live CD (even if it's a really basic one such as
> a debian/ubuntu installer), there is a huge amount of damage you can
> do to a system.
>
> From a relatively modern (last year or so) Linux-based Live CD, you
> can do the fol
Quoting Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If you boot to the recovery console then you have full root access. from
> here you can run "passwd " to change the password of that
> user. I have had this problem before and it was worrying to find out how
> easy it was to do this, although if someon
