Ubuntu
cryptsetup package

long cryptroot passphrase prompt looks bad

Bug #326900 reported by Kees Cook
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cryptsetup (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Kees Cook

Bug Description

Binary package hint: cryptsetup

The current cryptsetup prompt is very long, so passphrases will line-wrap while they are typed which makes correcting typos annoying to deal with, since backspace will not wrap back up to the first line.

Kees Cook (kees)
Changed in cryptsetup:
assignee: nobody → kees
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package cryptsetup - 2:1.0.6-7ubuntu2

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cryptsetup (2:1.0.6-7ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/askpass.c: handle newline escape code in password prompt.
  * debian/initramfs/cryptroot-script: add newline to split cryptroot
    password prompt onto two lines for readability (LP: #326900).

 -- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:26:01 -0800

Changed in cryptsetup:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Andrej Rohaŭ (arohau) wrote :

BTW, askpass with console input method does not process newline special in the new cryptroot script. Looks similar to the following:

$ /lib/cryptsetup/askpass 'Hello,\nWorld!'
Hello,\nWorld!

Revision history for this message
Kees Cook (kees) wrote : Re: [Bug 326900] Re: long cryptroot passphrase prompt looks bad

Thanks for catching that! I've fixed it now:

 cryptsetup (2:1.0.6-7ubuntu4) jaunty; urgency=low

   * debian/askpass.c: also handle newline escape code in console prompt.

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