encrypted automounting

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Dec 21 14:12:27 UTC 2013


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 23:30:48 +0100,
   Patrick Dupre <pdupre at gmx.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I forgot to unchek "keep memory of the password" when I mounted an encrypted
>partition. How can I reset it ?
>Now, every time that the USB key is plugged, then this partition is
>also mounted!

You can use cryptsetup to add and remove luks passphrases. Note that if there 
are backups of the luks header for that partition, they could potentially 
be used with the old passphrase to decrypt the file system on partition.

There should be a way to unsave the passphrase, but I don't know how to 
do it. Arguably saving the passphrase by default is a bug.


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