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Re:Save your Linux machine – Recovering your root password a... by chrisMyzel on Friday May 01, 2020 @09:21AM (#23041717)
encryption password ≠ root password , at least not for me :-)
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Re:Save your Linux machine – Recovering your root password a... by organsnyder on Friday May 01, 2020 @09:54AM (#23041979)
The root password is pretty useless by itself if you can't decrypt the data.
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Re:Save your Linux machine – Recovering your root password a... by chrisMyzel on Friday May 01, 2020 @11:35PM (#23048925)
Sure but you might have forgotten your root password and remembered your disk encryption pw
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