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Re: Self-destruct password

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:07:53PM +0200, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Chris Kuklewicz wrote:
> 
> > I have a slightly differenct question.  How does one change the pass
> > phrase of an encrypted volume?
> you have to reencrypt the whole volume... by a complete backup with the
> old passphrase, and a restore with the new one...
> 

You should be able to change passwords quite simply by losetuping two
versions of the encrypted volume - one device with the old password
and one device with the new password.  Then dding from the old device
to the new device.

astor

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