HP UX Encrypted Volume and Filesystem (EVFS) manual Administering Evfs

5 Administering EVFS

This chapter describes how to perform the following EVFS administrative tasks:

•Starting and stopping EVFS components. This includes the tasks described in the following sections:

—“Starting the EVFS Subsystem” (page 80)

—“Enabling Encryption and Decryption Access to EVFS Volumes” (page 80)

—“Disabling Encryption/Decryption Access to EVFS Volumes” (page 81)

—“Stopping the EVFS Subsystem” (page 82)

—“Opening Raw Access to EVFS Volumes” (page 83)

—“Closing Raw Access to EVFS Volumes” (page 83)

•Managing EVFS keys and users. This includes the tasks described in the following sections:

—“Displaying Key IDs for an EVFS Volume” (page 84)

—“Restoring User Keys” (page 84)

—“Changing Owner Keys for an EVFS Volume” (page 86)

—“Recovering from Problems with Owner Keys” (page 87)

—“Removing Keys from an EVFS Volume” (page 87)

—“Removing User Keys or Stored Passphrase from the EVFS Key Database” (page 87)

—“Changing the Passphrase for a Key” (page 87)

—“Creating or Changing a Stored Passphrase for an Existing Key” (page 88)

•Recovering from encryption metadata (EMD) corruption. This task is described in the section “Recovering from EMD Corruption” (page 89).

•Removing a volume from the EVFS subsystem. This task is described in “Removing a Volume from the EVFS Subsystem” (page 90).

•Exporting and importing EVFS volumes. This includes the tasks described in the following sections:

—“Exporting an EVFS Volume” (page 91)

—“Importing an EVFS Volume” (page 93)

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