On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 7:08 PM Agathe Porte <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Alexey, > > 2023-03-08 16:45 CET, Alexey Kuznetsov: > > Right now on a system encrypted with LUKS, the first prompt you'll see > is a > > grub passphrase to unlock the device, after OS boot you see a second > prompt > > for login/password. This looks redundant. > > > > How about bypassing the second prompt and allowing grub to handle all > > security prompts including the login/password and unlocking the LUKS at > the > > same time? > > I disable the login password by connecting my user automatically on my > LUKS setup. It is a few clicks away in most DEs I would guess. > > Did you consider this instead of implementing what you propose? > > Bests, > > Agathe. > Yes I did. I did the same on my machine. I only type passpharse and initrd have luks-key script, and gdm has autologin. But another notebook with LUKS setup has multiple users, so autologin will not work. This is not about autologin. This is about unlocking your machine LUKS with only login/password without having an additional passphrase to remember.
