LEOPARD -FILEVAULT- PROBLEM HELP!. PASSWORD PROBLEM?
Hello.. my friend installed LEOPARD upgrade today. Everything went OK, then he do the Softwware update and the re-start and when it went up, his MacBook Pro can't take his password. Some message with FILEVAULT problem came up.
He can re-installed Leopard again and save his data?
I solved my problem. In short: Manually decrypt your sparseimage, place the data in your home directory and disable filevault. Then login and enjoy! (And maybe enable FileVault again...
You need:
- An extra user with no FV enabled (admin)
- An external disk drive with enough space to hold your home directory
Here is what I did:
1. Restore your Tiger setup from backup (you DO have one, don't you?)
2. Log in to your FileVaulted account. Open Terminal
3. Do "cd .. ; sudo cp -R -p johndoe /Volumes/ABig_ExtDrive/" (Assume your homedirectory/shortname is 'johndoe')
4. Upgrade to Leopard
5. Log into the admin account, connect the external drive
6. Open Terminal
7. Do "cd .. ; sudo mv johndoe johndoe_old" This renames your old homedirectory which has your filevault image. If you don't have enough space left, you can remove this directory / sparseimage by typing "sudo rm johndoe/johndoe.sparseimage"
8. Do "cp -R -p /Volumes/ABig_ExtDrive/johndoe ." to copy your data back, non-crypted (you should be in /Users directory now)
9. Type "sudo dscl . -delete /Users/johndoe HomeDirectory" to disable FileVault
10. No reboot required, just log in to your johndoe account!
(11. Remove the /Users/johndoe_old -directory)
You can verify #9 with this:
Your johndoe account should have this key, like this:
[terminal begin]
admin$ sudo dscl . -read /Users/johndoe/ HomeDirectory
HomeDirectory: <home_dir><url>file://localhost/Users/johndoe/johndoe.sparseimage</url></home_dir>
[terminal end]
..which means this account has FileVault enabled..
..and the admin account should not have this key:
[terminal begin]
admin$ sudo dscl . -read /Users/admin/ HomeDirectory
No such key: HomeDirectory
[terminal end]
..nobe, disabled.
HTH,
-Sakke
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