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Re: [solved] passphrase feedback when unlocking disk at boot



Quoting David Wright (2020-01-23 20:51:13)
> On Thu 23 Jan 2020 at 10:32:44 (-0800), Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > On Jo, 23 ian 20, 07:49:01, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> > > > With the first system, when I enter the passphrase at the 
> > > > "please unlock disk" prompt, there is no visual feedback.  With 
> > > > the second system, I get a "*" for each character that I type.
> > > > 
> > > > Is there some configuration option I can change on the first 
> > > > system so that it behaves like the second one?
> > > 
> > > The package plymouth might be the difference.
> > 
> > Yes, that was it.  I installed plymouth on the first system and 
> > rebooted, and now it prints a "*" for each character in the 
> > passphrase.
> 
> It would be interesting to know why installing plymouth made any 
> difference. My system prints asterisks even though plymouth is not 
> installed.
> 
> Were there any other packages installed along with plymouth?

Seems it is part of systemd to switch behaviour when plymouth is 
available: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1432265/comments/9


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