Currently when rc.sysinit invokes cryptsetup luksOpen to access an encrypted partition rc.sysinit will do a chvt 1 to allow a user to enter a passphrase. With the included patch we check if zenity is available to use a graphical prompt instead of switching to a text-console.
Created attachment 142638 [details] Check for and use zenity to ask for a passphrase
Can't do this at this point for Fedora 7, as it changes strings for translation. Will reexamine for F8.
Did any reexamination happen ?
No.
Punting to F10. Too late for F9 :(
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saving from zapping
This will be done as part of a rhgb rewrite - this will not be done in initscripts itself.