Jan. 3, 2023, 4:33 a.m. | nabbisen

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Is it possible to change the passphrase after applying Full Disk Encryption by it to your OpenBSD server ?


Yes !! This post shows how. It's a really simple way with bioctl.


First, login to your server. Then run:



$ doas bioctl -P sd1


Well, in this example, sd0 is the origin disk and sd1 is CRYPTO volume introduced by softraid. In other words, sd1 here is where OpenBSD was actually installed via the installer.


You will be …

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