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Maybe a bit off topic, but does anyone know about themes or GUIs for LUKS password entry? The command line version has pretty unintuitive behaviour for family m

Maybe a bit off topic, but does anyone know about themes or GUIs for LUKS password entry? The command line version has pretty unintuitive behaviour for family members which are used to modern GUIs.

atahanacar 3y ago
Plymouth? I tested it a long time ago but I can remember it having a password entry prompt.
0x0F 3y ago
With a little config you can do that using Plymouth, a number of themes for it have have custom themed LUKS prompts. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/plymouth https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/plymouth https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-theme-luks/79792/2 https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-theme-luks/79792/2
dspillett 3y ago
Not something you could script up using https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.32/password.html.en https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.32/password.html.en or similar?
- lights0123 3y ago
  That would require a full GTK installation in initramfs, which would be a bit heavy.
  - dspillett 3y ago
    Ah, by GUI I assumed you meant something good indeed booted for hunting things like homes. For during the boot process for mounting an encrypted root, a TUI using something like dialog (https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html#screenshot https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html#screenshot and commonly available in Linux distributions standard repositories) would probably be more suited. IIRC it is what Debian use for their text installer. It should be pretty light weight, though it is still something you are scripting and adding to initramfs yourself so there may be more pre-made options that require less manual maintenance.
    - dspillett 3y ago
      (hunting -> mounting - didn't notice until the edit option has expired)
mixmastamyk 3y ago
Fedora does that automatically if encryption enabled on install.
doublepg23 3y ago
Yeah go echo a below comment, unless something is broken Ubuntu and Fedora both do this already.

Maybe a bit off topic, but does anyone know about themes or GUIs for LUKS password entry? The command line version has pretty unintuitive behaviour for family members which are used to modern GUIs.

atahanacar 3y ago

Plymouth? I tested it a long time ago but I can remember it having a password entry prompt.

0x0F 3y ago

With a little config you can do that using Plymouth, a number of themes for it have have custom themed LUKS prompts. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/plymouth https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/plymouth https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-theme-luks/79792/2 https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-theme-luks/79792/2

dspillett 3y ago

Not something you could script up using https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.32/password.html.en https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.32/password.html.en or similar?

lights0123 3y ago
That would require a full GTK installation in initramfs, which would be a bit heavy.
- dspillett 3y ago
  Ah, by GUI I assumed you meant something good indeed booted for hunting things like homes. For during the boot process for mounting an encrypted root, a TUI using something like dialog (https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html#screenshot https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html#screenshot and commonly available in Linux distributions standard repositories) would probably be more suited. IIRC it is what Debian use for their text installer. It should be pretty light weight, though it is still something you are scripting and adding to initramfs yourself so there may be more pre-made options that require less manual maintenance.
  - dspillett 3y ago
    (hunting -> mounting - didn't notice until the edit option has expired)

mixmastamyk 3y ago

Fedora does that automatically if encryption enabled on install.

doublepg23 3y ago

Yeah go echo a below comment, unless something is broken Ubuntu and Fedora both do this already.