Bug 459089 - Entering wrong passphrase when attempting to disk probe continues to prompt for passphrase without imforming the user the password is wrong
Summary: Entering wrong passphrase when attempting to disk probe continues to prompt f...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: David Lehman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: AnacondaUI
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Reported: 2008-08-14 12:52 UTC by James Laska
Modified: 2013-09-02 06:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-12-05 07:08:55 UTC
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Description James Laska 2008-08-14 12:52:11 UTC
Description of problem:
When installing to a system with existing encrypted block devices, anaconda prompts for the passphrase to read those devices.  If you continue to enter the wrong password ... anaconda continues to prompt for the passphase.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F10-Alpha


Steps to Reproduce:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestCases/LUKS_Enter_Passphrase_to_unlock_previously_encrypted_fs

 * when prompted for passphrase, enter the wrong passphrase
  
Actual results:
 * anaconda reprompts every time a bad passphrase is entered

Expected results:
 * I'm not a UI expert, but feels like some notification that the password wasn't accepted wouldn't be bad.  Maybe a dialog (with some word-smithing):

-----------------------------------------------
The passphrase entered did not unlock sdb1.

  [ cancel ] [ retry ]
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 * Perhaps we continue as is ... and after 3 failures, we present a dialog?

Comment 1 Alexander Todorov 2008-08-14 12:55:59 UTC
better yet:

leave as is, but change the caption of the dialog to read:
The passphrase entered did not unlock $device

This will re-use the current GUI code and a caption change is an easy fix which will be sufficient for this bug.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:46:30 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 3 Andy Lindeberg 2009-07-16 21:21:10 UTC
This is still the case in F11, though I don't think it's a high priority - I think people can generally figure out that the previously input password was a bad one, and there could be logic errors in the underlying code that make this a more difficult fix (for example, if anaconda is just being told, "This device is not unlocked" rather than "The password was incorrect", we can't interpret when it's a reprompt and when it's the original prompt).

This should get looked at when the UI rewrite happens, though.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 08:11:29 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 07:08:55 UTC
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