Nah, it's mainly a paranoia thing :banghead:

from this in what he said:
that is a design issue then. Because it sould not matter reguardless by what method you used to change your password, because only you or root user can do this. For it not to sync, to me, is a malfunction within the design of said distro.

I do not use encription so that is an at first glance option.

I tried the below. It did manage to mount the private files, but their still encrypted

I can see why they did this; otherwise anyone with access to the computer and a little knowledge of linux could easily use root to change the password and gain access. That's the trouble with encryption: it's either convenient and user friendly, or as safe as possible. Never both.

yeah I too can see it with distros like mint or Ubuntututu that give a user a backdoor to root, because they do not actually give the user a front door. so the backdoor no password needed for root is what they have to use instead. because you cannot actually get rid of root

that is more a security issue then allowing a user to put a root user password in, and creating a actual root user account.

that too is another reason I stay away from distros that do not give the user a root account. It is a necessity.

one can just switch tty's and they still have to know the root passwd to get in. but them that do,are mostly the person that owns it and is acutally the root user with another user account. that is the way it should be.

then he can do as he did change passwords. being that it was an actual root account that it'd be done in. Then I wonder if that sync would have still failed? because it was not done in an passwordless root shell crap that any one can use.

Correct that's a major issue, which seems like it could have easily been avoided.

Anyway, the mount passphrase is a 32 character phrase made up from a-z and 0-9, so brute forcing it isn't really an option either. I'm off back to DuckDuckGo, to see what else I can find. Thanks for all your help so far :)

there use to be a really good website called 'hackers.com' with all kinds of useful tools hehehe
I just checked and its no longer up

Hack Like a Pro: How to Crack User Passwords in a Linux System


Password Cracking Software

hehehe, thanks for those. Unfortunately, my passwords are highly secure against attacks like those outlined in these articles. Again, it's my own security measures horribly backfiring..

as you typo'ed your password then logic states it should be something relatively close to your actual password you think you used.

how many attempts you're allowed before getting locked out and if it is only a timed lockout I do not know.

you sould post a question on Stack Exchange on resyncing a encripted home directory

how to recover wrapped-passphrase????
read towards the bottom of this page I think this person recovered his wrapped-passphrase. He got his stuff back

read
post #5,and 6

I have no idea of what I am doing in how this actually works but this might help.

Thanks for that. unfortunately, that approach gave no result either.

The below is from my syslog. This seems to happen consistently when I try to access the encrypted folder

either the correct key got screwed up somehow or you're using the wrong key... that is what I'd access from that information. Then I'd attept the proper actions that would hopefully remove said error.