[ale] password for encrypted home dir

[smcbrien at gmail.com (Scott McBrien)]

Copy your important stuff to another, temporary, location.  That way if you don't know the password, you have your stuff and can remake the encrypted device with a password you 100% know and put the data back into place.

-Scott

> On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:37 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Don't recall exact commands but look for adding a second password to a luks partition. You will have to know the first password to add a second and then you will know two.
> 
>> On Nov 21, 2013 12:40 AM, "Tim Watts" <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have an encrypted home dir (Ubuntu 12.04 lts) and I'm 95% sure I
>> remember the correct password.  Of course, I don't want to reboot unless
>> I'm 100% sure of it.  I think there's a command to check this (or at
>> least reset it).  Can anyone give me a pointer?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
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