How do I add a "purpose" for recovery agent in a workgroup

[mgm]

I've attempted to set up a recovery agent. The XP help files talks about the
mmc and exporting/importing these certificates/keys, but I can't find any
referrence to actually creating or obtaining the keys/certificates. I'm the
local computer admin for a small peer2peer workgroup and I need to recover
an encrypted file... Please tell
me how to create the needed certs and keys.
Thanks...
mgm

 

[Jim Nugent]

Have a look at this:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prnb_efs_ayqu.asp

 

[Richard Urban]

If you do not know the encryption key used to encrypt the file, setting up
recovery agent now will not help you. You should have done that before you
forgot the key! Without a key you do not see the file - period!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard