Currently, the decryption screen doesn't display any message when the is wrong. It's a bit weird to not give any information to the user. This information could be a given by showing a simply message or a visual feedback, like the password input turning red.
Thank you for your suggestion, I agree that some from of visual feedback here would be good.
The problem here is that the current diskdecryption screen simply gets asked to show itself and ask for a password and then hands over the password to the requesting process and is done after handing over the password, so it has no idea if the password is valid.
So step 1 in implementing something like this would be a RFE against systemd to extend the https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/ API to allow reporting some status about the password back to the password-agent after writing it to the pipe.
It's probably worth mentioning that the WG's long-term goal is to avoid the need for the separate disk encryption password prompt. That's #82 and #136.
Thanks for the information, @jwrdegoede . I agree that it would be good for this to be fixed, @limao-doce .
It's not really the working group's role to track UX details like this, so I'm going to close this as won't fix. It might be good to have a tracking issue against the relevant upstream component though.
Metadata Update from @aday: - Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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