That is a good pointer, I will start experimenting with kdbrate and see if anything improves.
I did come up with the following contraption which helps at least seeing what is going on and so far
it seems that the password is 1 char short on invalid attempt and it is usually the last char that seems to be missing.
I will probably figure it out through testing eventually.
#!/bin/bash
MAX_ATTEMPTS=3
attempt=0
while [ "$attempt" -lt "$MAX_ATTEMPTS" ]; do
printf "ZFS load-key password (attempt $((attempt + 1)) of
$MAX_ATTEMPTS): "
PASSWORD=""
while true; do
char=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null)
if [ -z "$char" ] || [ "$char" = "$(printf '\n')" ]; then
break
fi
printf "*"
PASSWORD="${PASSWORD}${char}"
done
echo "$PASSWORD" | /usr/sbin/zfs load-key -a
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Password accepted. Exiting."
exit 0
else
echo "Incorrect password. Please try again."
FIRST="${PASSWORD:0:1}"
LAST="${PASSWORD: -1}"
LEN=${#PASSWORD}
echo "Got $FIRST ... $LAST, length $LEN"
attempt=$((attempt + 1))
sleep 3
fi
done
echo "Maximum attempts reached. Exiting."
On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 20:22, cen <imbacen@gmail.com> wrote:I have a very weird issue that.. if I type too fast the password is wrong. I know this sounds weird but it's true.. I can type the same password fast and it is wrong, then I type it very slowly the third time and it works. I feel like it must be some weird thing with the boot terminal input rate or key detection but I have no clue where to start looking.[...]Any clues welcomeHi, I have experienced something similar, so it does not sound weird to me. So my solution to my similar problem, might be a useful clue for you :) I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop [1] whose default keyboard rate settings cause manual typing of the cryptsetup password entry in the initrd environment to fail more often than not. A very annoying situation. I fix this situation by causing /sbin/kbdrate to run inside the initrd environment, before the cryptsetup password entry occurs. A while ago I wrote an email message about how I do that here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/01/msg00105.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/01/msg00106.html Maybe this method can help you with your encrypted ZFS password entry, I don't know. [1] Toshiba Satellite Pro C665 Model No PSC2FA-002002