Forgot user and root pw, ssd is luks encrypted

[samohtfhritp]

I forgot my password for my user / root PW. The SSD is luks encrypted, I still know the encryption Password. I know about the Live USB + passwd process. I just don’t know how I would go about that in combination with the SSD being encrypted. can someone help?

[Cornwol]

If you mean using the Live USB to chroot, or manjaro-chroot into the encrypted drive then this might help [Solved] Can not mount partition to manjaro-chroot from live-usb.

[Molski]

I know nothing about LUKS.

But if all you need to do is reset your password, that is pretty simple.

• Boot live image
• (manajro-)chroot in
• Type passwd for root
• Or passwd USER

[Nachlese]

what @Molski said might be the easiest way

To be able to use manjaro-chroot on an encrypted system like yours, you have to open the encrypted container first.

• boot live image

• do not use your file manager to access your encrypted volume as it will only complicate things

• open a terminal and type:
  lsblk -f

• from the output, learn what your encrypted partitions name is and use that in the next step
  it will look like this, for instance:

sdb                                                                                
├─sdb1 vfat        FAT32       84B9-0375                                           
└─sdb2 crypto_LUKS 2           73213ab9-5c8c-4c2a-a397-aa321ebfd4ec

where sdb2 is the encrypted partition

• open the encrypted container:

sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sdb2 encrypted

• you will be asked for your encryption password

after that, the encrypted partition can be accessed as /dev/mapper/encrypted
mount this to /mnt:

sudo mount /dev/mapper/encrypted /mnt

• then you can use manjaro-chroot like this:

manjaro-chroot /mnt /bin/bash

and reset your password like @Molski said

when you are done, type “exit”
then you can reboot …

[samohtfhritp]

Thank you Sir, that’s what I was looking for!

Also thanks to the others