how to change luks password

Heinz Diehl htd at fritha.org
Sun Mar 3 20:54:10 UTC 2013


On 03.03.2013, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: 

> how to change the password for thesse partitions

"cryptsetup luksAddKey" does that.

> or I will do that manually one-by-one ? 

Yes.

In fact, you can't change a LUKS password directly. First, you have to
add the new password, then you can remove the old one. See option
"luksKillSlot".



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