Changing password for GELI encrypted diskpartitions
illoai at gmail.com
illoai at gmail.com
Sun Dec 3 13:17:37 PST 2006
On 12/3/06, Erik Norgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org> typed:
> The man page doesn't seem to say anything about this: How do you change
> the pass phrase for an encrypted partition (geli)?
>
. . .
>
> Secondly: Is the passphrase protecting the key file or the partition
> itself? (just for curriosity).
>From a cursory scan, it would appear that the passphrase
protects the key file (which then protects the partition?), and
that the passphrase is changed via delkey & setkey. Hopefully
someone more knowledgeable can shed some more light.
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