I learned a fair bit about linux during this exercise, though (I'm pretty new to the system still). Think I'm going to try VeraCrypt, since it sounds like a solid, truly cross-platform encryption solution. So I'm giving up on Bitlocker for portable drive encryption. Didn't have to reinstall anything like starting fresh with the OS, but had to reset all my app settings and preferences, set up my email account again, etc.

Fortunately during the reboot my OS asked me to create a new user account (since it didn't find one that worked), and I was able to move all my data over to the new account, completely delete the old account (including its group), and rebuild it.

I double-checked my /etc/passwd file and the account was still there (with zeroes for the UID & GID), but somehow the OS read that as the account being unusable.Īfter stressing a bit about losing all the data on my machine I finally rebooted and hoped for a miracle. I couldn't open any new programs, or any new tabs in my browser, and couldn't install any new removable media.

(I know, I should have created a separate account just for this test, but I didn't think of that.) When I tried to invoke any command afterward in the terminal (with or without sudo) it gave me a message that I did not exist. I followed the directions from several websites to give my user account root privileges (editing my /ect/passwd file to change my UID & GID to 0), and the result was that I basically nuked my user account. So I tried this a couple nights ago, and failed miserably. Obviously I end up stopping this process because that disk is huge and besides I do not want to copy it.Ĭan anyone please assist if possible and tell me what it is I might be doing wrong or is dislocker not working properly on RHEL 8? However it is not doing what I thought it was supposed to be doing, meaning it never opens the external drive instead it's creating a copy of the entire external drive in the /media/bitlocker directory. If I skip the step of creating the bitlocker and mount directories/folders then the command executes successfully. Sat Aug 28 13:13:11 2021 '/media/bitlocker' already exists, can't override. 'sudo dislocker -r -V /dev/sdb1 -u - /media/bitlocker If I create a new directory /media/bitlocker is gets created successfully and the /media/mount that also gets created. I am using RHEL 8, I followed the steps as stipulated.

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