Public bug reported:
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
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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dm-crypt passphrase asked before keyboard layout
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