On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 21:59 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Gents > > Thanks for the responses - I really was trying to find out if, for any > hardware or software reason, a usre could no longer access their encrypted > files, if a user with appropriate privilages could. Not looking at this in > the negative, ie to stop it from happening, but from the positive knowing > that there was a fall back.
No, this isn't possible. root can only access them if the user can I believe. This means you should write down the passphrase used for the mount (automatically generated or not), which is different to the account password, and store that in a safe place. That will allow you to recover the files if you have the hard drive but you can't log in or similar. Thanks, James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
