Re: [suse-security] password recovery

[Rikard Johnels <rikjoh@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 25 July 2004 22.35, Dirk Schreiner wrote:
> Hi *
>
> Rikard Johnels schrieb:
> > On Sunday 25 July 2004 18.44, Antun Balaz wrote:
> >>And what if the filesystem is encrypted?
>
> -----------8<------------
>
> > Mount it the usual way for encrypted systems. I dont use it so i cant
> > tell you how. The actual filesystem isnt relevant. As long as you can
> > access it ok. Just mount it rw and chroot into it.
>
> But if the FS is encrypted with the root-PW
> you`ve got _real_ trouble.
>
> S(really)CNR
>
> Dirk
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I'd say "In that case you are cooked!!"

Not that i know much of encrypted FS's, but id say you are pretty lost by 
then. Unless you can brutecrack the encryption with some forensics 
software...


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