Cannot decrypt swap partition with Mandos inside a LV (LVM)

[Teddy Hogeborn]

Olivier Molinete <olivier at molinete.org> writes:

> > The pickle file only exists when the server is stopped.  If you stop
> > the server it writes the current state to a pickle file, which, if
> > removed, will reset the state to whatever is in the clients.conf
> > file.
>
> I didn't know that, sorry! :)

That's OK; the *documented* way (see mandos(8)) to reset the settings is
to start the server with the --no-restore option, which has the same
effect as removing the pickle file.  The pickle file trick might not
work in the future if/when the implementation details change.

/Teddy Hogeborn

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