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How can I make LUKS show me the number of characters I'm entering when unlocking my drive? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 day ago by kayky@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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It's kind of buggy where I'll enter characters but they won't register. I can verify this because when booting, sometimes my num and caps lock keys will have a delay after pressing before their light changes.

This is very annoying when trying to unlock the computer, because I essentially have to wait an arbitrary amount of time before I think inputs will register properly. This wouldn't be as much of an issue if I could, you know, get some feedback that they keys I'm entering are actually being entered.

Is there a way to change this to suit my needs better?

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[–] hermelino@feddit.org 1 points 49 minutes ago

You may want to check out openSUSE. It does this on a system where / is encrypted but /boot is not.

[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

By default, Fedora shows the per-character dots. It's probably something in plymouth.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

In whatever centos uses for a prompt, it says "press tab for echo", and it works. You'll need to provide more info about your environment if you don't have that option.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I changed my mkinitcpio hook from the busybox initencrypt to systemd init sd-encrypt to help with this, as it presents a different way to unlock a LUKS partition. Be sure to read the notes about sd-vconsole if you use this hook. Your mileage may vary since im not sure which OS you're on.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio#Common_hooks

[–] bricked@feddit.org -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perhaps this is a little overkill, but you could install a display manager like GDM or SDDM that displays a graphical password input.

[–] angel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're asking about the password prompt for the disk encryption, which is shown before the rootfs can be accessed. Thus, installing a display manager to the rootfs will not help. Furthermore, a display manager serves the purpose of logging in users, not unlocking an encrypted partition.

[–] bricked@feddit.org 2 points 19 hours ago

You are right! I meant to refer to Plymouth, which will do what I described. It's been a while since I did this.