Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 508474
Installer allows illegal passwords for encrypted storage
Last modified: 2010-06-28 09:20:24 EDT
The F11 installer allows to setup encrypted partitions. The problem: it allows to use characters which you won't be able to input during boot. Example: create a partition with password containing the character "ü", the installer will not complain or warn about this. I think the problem is that at the time of the password check no special keyboard driver (german in this case) is loaded. If you press "ü", the password prompt gets stuck. Note that at this point the boot will fail even if you try to cancel the password prompt (of a non-essential encrypted partition) which should also NOT be the case I think. Feel free to re-assign to the component handling the password check at boot or some other.
This sounds like something that should be handled in the glorious future of the initrd.
dracut sets the right keyboard layout, as does mkinitrd/nash reassigning to plymouth, which handles the password prompt
(In reply to comment #2) > reassigning to plymouth, which handles the password prompt Sure about that? The installation was done with nomodeset, so the installation is using text-plymouth. At the time of the password prompt I was seeing the plain old console however.
Yeah, the problem is with plymouth. I am working on it right now. The problem is that we were using the libc locale based wide character functions which do not work if we have no access to /usr/lib/. And we cant mount /usr/ without a password... Cryptsetup is unaffected because it doesn't try to separate the password into character elements.
(In reply to comment #4) > The problem > is that we were using the libc locale based wide character functions which do > not work if we have no access to /usr/lib/. And we cant mount /usr/ without a > password... Well in this case / could have been mounted without a pw because it was not encrypted?
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