dm-crypt passphrase asked before keyboard layout
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When performing a fresh 13.10 install and asking for full disk encryption, the passphrase is asked before the keyboard layout is chosen. Therefore the user types a password as if on a us (qwerty) layout, blindly.
On restart, user has to type the same passphrase but on the layout he has selected during the install, which can be tricky for unaware users (even without using special chars : good password often include digits, which translate to non-alphanumeric char for example on french layouts).
I think keyboard layout selection should occur *before* the passphrase is asked, or that the keyboard layout should be adequatly displayed on the passphrase selection screen (or maybe display a virtual keyboard ? or add a checkbox to authorize the chosen passphrase to appear in clear text ?)
I am rather surprised not to have found this reported already, as it seems an obvious problem that any non-us user, asking for full disk encryption, would stumble upon. My apologies if this has already been reported somewhere...
Best regards,
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Frédéric Meynadier
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.