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I can't use my former root password anymore.

System: Debian Testing

What did I do:

  • log into root
  • doing updates (with aptitude update && aptitude upgrade)
  • aptitude install cryptsetup
  • starting encryption by triple-checked cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 -y -s 256 luksFormat /dev/sdc7

Checked:

  • date and time of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are like before
  • no typing error (typed vissible)
  • no one else logged in (last)
  • not possible: /var/log/auth.log (needs su rights)

Could the upgrade corrupt the password? (Help for resetting the password isn't needed, I think the old root shell "feature" still works.)

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Success: Typing the password the next day, revealed, that my procedural (typing) memory access was working again and I used the Shift once more. So it was merely a typo. Good luck to all up-voters of the question :)

(Procedural memory is different from the declarative or explicit or verbal memory. Expect bugs in both features, when having a hard time recalling a password :)

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