FORGOT PASSPHASE

[Andrew McDonald]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:46:26AM -0700, Bob Barth wrote:
> How do I get a forgotten Passphase (I used in generating my public key)?
> 
> I have root privileges.

Not quite good enough. ;-) You need to be at least $OMNISCIENT_DEITY
($OMNIPOTENT_DEITY would probably do to).

Sorry. There isn't any way to get your passphrase back. What would the
point be if you could do that? Someone else would be able to do it as
well.


[This doesn't appear to be in the FAQ - maybe it should be?]
-- 
Andrew McDonald
E-mail: andrew@mcdonald.org.uk
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