[rhinstaller/anaconda/pulls/338 master] Do not allow passphrases to be typed with non-ASCII keymaps (#681250)

vpodzime installerbot-noreply at redhat.com
Tue Sep 1 08:24:04 UTC 2015


Generally I must say I don't like this change because it works around half of the issues without fixing the root cause (which is not in our code). People can still paste whatever they want from a clipboard (which works between the host and guest) and even with a layout supporting ASCII people may have troubles typing in their passphrase because the letters may have completely different positions. So unless we want to restrict installations including passphrase typing to the 'en' keyboard layout, there's no real solution for this issue on our side. The real fixes should happen in systemd (giving us the matching console keymap for X layout) and dracut (being able to load such keymaps). Or we could just wait for the thing replacing consoles with some graphical-based UI supporting X layouts.
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