On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:28:17 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
You know what is a work around and not a solution and is default? ~/
isn't encrypted. And the two install time options insist on restricted
character sets for the passphrase, the user must not change their
keyboard layout, or their keyboard to one with a different keymapping
- lest they experience data loss.
$HOME is encrypted if you put it on an encrypted filesystem. Additionally,
that Anaconda restricts what the passphrase for the key sounds like a bug in
Anaconda. The user can change their keyboard layout. That's fine. It wouldn't
cause data loss. However, it would make it more difficult to unlock the
system, if they forget they've changed the keyboard layout and regenerated
their initramfs. (If they do it globally, if they just do it once the OS is
booted, then they're good to go.)
The traditional way is unquestionably hostile to international
users,
and doing better, however untraditional, is absolutely something I
strongly favor.
How is it "hostile to international users"? "international users"
generally
set their keyboard layout to the one they use primarily.. Just like everyone
else :)
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John M. Harris, Jr.
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