[Mageia-dev] Systemd improvement

[Colin Guthrie]

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'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 24/07/12 11:18 did gyre and gimble:
> * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 24/07/12 10:47 did gyre and gimble:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> No you misunderstood, if the system succeed to launch
>>> '/usr/bin/ask-the-passphrase' or whatever its name is, it must wait an
>>> answer for ever and not continue booting and finally claim "hey
>>> surprising, I failed to boot w/o the passphrase".
>>> The firest time it happend I really thought my system was broken.
>>
>> So what if you cannot enter your password and want to rescue the system?
>> Should it still wait forever until you enter your passphrase? Or would
>> you have to deliberately enter your passphrase wrong X number of times
>> to get the the rescue mode?
> 
> Why would I be unable to enter my password ? Because I am too drunk ?
> Then better to not be able to start the system. Because I forgot it ?
> Well then I can reinstall, my data are lost.

:p

Well perhaps, or maybe something else has messed up e.g. keymaps or
similar and it's now impossible (or bloody hard) to enter the passphrase
correctly.

> Even in rescue mode, I must be able to enter my passphrase, it's a
> unrelated issue.
> 
> I may point there is a failsafe menu in grub.

Yes, but shouldn't there be a different way to deal with it? e.g. if I
have /home encrypted, but I want to use rescue mode to fix a broken
keymap I don't want to be presented with a password dialog which I then
specifically have dismiss by entering something wrong three times (or
whatever). That's not good UI.

I'm just suggesting that this process needs a bit of thought to it and
was trying to kick start that thought process.

I still think this is a discussion best had upstream.

Col

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