Bug 612665
| Summary: | Plymouth password icon could use some indication it's for a hard drive password | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh> | ||||||
| Component: | plymouth | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | ghelleks, jkoten, jsteiner, myllynen, tcapek, vbenes | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | plymouth-0.8.3-20.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||
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Previously, the system prompted for a password on boot but provided no hint as to what the password was for. That caused unnecessary confusion for some users, who didn't know which of their passwords to enter. With this update, a hard drive icon has been added to prompts associated with encrypted disk volumes and the password prompts for encrypted disks are now easy to recognize.
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| Last Closed: | 2011-05-19 14:02:46 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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Description
Subhendu Ghosh
2010-07-08 18:13:15 UTC
So the issue here is we don't have access to fonts, translations, etc until the root filesystem is mounted. It's not a problem in practice, though, because in most circumstanced we only need to know one thing before mounting the root filesystem. Namely, we need to know the password to mount the root filesystem with. Since it's only one thing, and the user already knows he/she will need to enter it to continue, conveying "nows the time to type your password" is all we need to do. We accomplish this with a "lock icon" and a text entry field on screen. We could potentially change the lock icon to a hard drive icon with a lock emblem or some such. That would make it even clearer it's a "hard drive password" and not just a password. This missed the non-blocker deadline, proposing for 6.1 ack if I can get suitable artwork Created attachment 468724 [details]
encrypted drive icon suitable for the purpose
SVG included as source, not intended for installation
Created attachment 483701 [details] old vs. new icon comparison New drive icon from comment 9 is present in plymouth-0.8.3-22.el6.
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Previously, the system prompted for a password on boot but provided no hint as to what the password was for. That caused unnecessary confusion for some users, who didn't know which of their passwords to enter. With this update, a hard drive icon has been added to prompts associated with encrypted disk volumes and the password prompts for encrypted disks are now easy to recognize.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0686.html |