eCryptfs

changed password

Asked by Mirko Dokic

Changed the password with "ecryptfs-rewrap-passphrase ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphase". Now the problem is when I should have entered the new password I accidentally added 1-2 random characters at the end. Now I don't know what the real password is. Is there some way to recover or change the password? I still have the hash which the setup gave me in case I needed to recover files from the container.

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Mirko Dokic (mdokic) said : 		#1

Problem solved. All I had to do was to boot, change to console and "cd ~/ecryptfs", type "ecryptfs-wrap-passphrase wrapped-passphrase", then type the hash/key which I got during the installation and then the login password. Restart, mounts without problems.