From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tansi.org (ns.km10532-04.keymachine.de [87.118.102.195]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:58:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-74-164-239.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.74.164.239]) by tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1E64250006 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:58:25 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:58:25 +0100 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20091103125825.GB18656@tansi.org> References: <1256220968-2387-1-git-send-email-ludwig.nussel@suse.de> <20091103084749.21a94a09@tanana.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091103084749.21a94a09@tanana.suse.de> Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] [PATCH] print warning when adding a key that contains non-ASCII characters List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 08:47:49AM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > Ludwig Nussel wrote: > > There's no way to determine whether e.g. the keymap on the console is > > the same as in X. Ie a key with umlauts added in an xterm may not be > > usable during boot. So when using e.g. an encrypted root partition > > users could lock themselves out. So I wonder whether a patch like > > the following would be acceptable? > > Any opinions? I think this is the wrong approach. Having a warning prominently in the man-page is better. Although an option to echo input back at the user, clearly marked "debug only" in man-page and --help output would occasionally be useful. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier