Re: Installer: Annotate that the LUKS-encryption password for full disk encryption will be typed in English keyboard layout

At Sat, 24 May 2014 23:36:30 +0200,
David Schultz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a suggestion regarding the installer. I hope this is the right place:
> 
> If you chose to encrypt your full disk (exept /boot) using LUKS and LVM, you 
> set the password right in the installer, typing in the chosen keyboard layout. 
> Yet when you then go on booting the fresh system, you type in English layout, 
> which will cause passwords with certain special chars to be rejected if you do 
> not know about this. 
> That way, I myself got convinced that it would be a good idea if the installer 
> gives an annotation on that behaviour. This really can save numerous 
> reinstallations as that circumstance is not quite blatant.

It can be regarded as a bug, so it'd be better to be reported to
Bugzilla.  Or, if you'd like to lead to more general discussions,
opensuse-factory ML would be more appropriate place, I think.


thanks,

Takashi
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