Bug 21612

Summary:	backspace generates bad keystroke in LUKS password dialog
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Tamás Hajdu <fathom>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	dracut-044-11.mga6	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Tamás Hajdu 2017-08-26 13:29:52 CEST

Description of problem:
When booting up LUKS ask for a password, in this dialog backspace generate a character (new dot shows up) instead of deleting one. 
On fedora backspace works fine at LUKS password dialog.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
probably dracut-044-11.mga6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot LUKS encrypted hdd
2. type password, make a typo, try to delete it with backspace
3. backspace generates a character and the password will be wrong

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-08-27 21:19:09 CEST

This doesn't only happen when trying to boot a LUKS encrypted disk, but also when trying to log in in a VT (you can test this by switching to tty3 and logging in there with a typo in your password that you correct before hitting enter: it won't work... the only difference is that you can't see how many characters you typed). 


You've reported this before for cauldron, though. Closing this report as duplicate of your former bug report. I'll set that one to "MGA6TOO"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20250 ***

Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11