FORGOT PASSPHASE

Rich Burroughs rich@indiepopradio.com
Tue Oct 23 22:03:01 2001


On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Matt Armstrong wrote:


> You don't. The whole point of having the pass phrase is that you
> can't recover the private key if you lose it. Being root doesn't
> help.
This is why people recommend generating a key revocation certificate when you generate a key pair. It won't help you get the passphrase, but at least you can revoke the key. Rich