Hello,
a friend of mine has a HDD that is filevault 2 encrypted. She does not know what happened exactly, but like she told me she changed her password on her mac from one to another. After that both passwords (old and new) where not accepted any more.
She gave it to me, as Im her "IT-friend of trust" :-D
Now I try to find the best way to help her out. I cloned the HDD with DD, so the original HDD is untouched and Im fine to try a few things out.
It seems to me, that there is still a user that has unlock-privileges. If I start up the mac I have a (user)password prompt. All the passwords she gave me are not accepted on this prompt.
There is an option to switch the prompt and use the 24-digit long recovery key to decrypt the HDD. Unfortunatly she did not save it.
So in short:
it is possible to unlock per user-pass, but none is accepted.
My Question:
I suspect, that she typed one digit of the password wrong two times. That also happened to me one time, then I changed one password and typed two times "0" instead of "o".
Is there a mask that goes through each digit and cycles a defiened char-set to test this out, if the password is known, but only one, unknown digit is wrong?
greets uenno
a friend of mine has a HDD that is filevault 2 encrypted. She does not know what happened exactly, but like she told me she changed her password on her mac from one to another. After that both passwords (old and new) where not accepted any more.
She gave it to me, as Im her "IT-friend of trust" :-D
Now I try to find the best way to help her out. I cloned the HDD with DD, so the original HDD is untouched and Im fine to try a few things out.
It seems to me, that there is still a user that has unlock-privileges. If I start up the mac I have a (user)password prompt. All the passwords she gave me are not accepted on this prompt.
There is an option to switch the prompt and use the 24-digit long recovery key to decrypt the HDD. Unfortunatly she did not save it.
So in short:
it is possible to unlock per user-pass, but none is accepted.
My Question:
I suspect, that she typed one digit of the password wrong two times. That also happened to me one time, then I changed one password and typed two times "0" instead of "o".
Is there a mask that goes through each digit and cycles a defiened char-set to test this out, if the password is known, but only one, unknown digit is wrong?
greets uenno