Quoting David Wright (2020-01-23 20:51:13) > On Thu 23 Jan 2020 at 10:32:44 (-0800), Mike Kupfer wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Jo, 23 ian 20, 07:49:01, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > > > With the first system, when I enter the passphrase at the > > > > "please unlock disk" prompt, there is no visual feedback. With > > > > the second system, I get a "*" for each character that I type. > > > > > > > > Is there some configuration option I can change on the first > > > > system so that it behaves like the second one? > > > > > > The package plymouth might be the difference. > > > > Yes, that was it. I installed plymouth on the first system and > > rebooted, and now it prints a "*" for each character in the > > passphrase. > > It would be interesting to know why installing plymouth made any > difference. My system prints asterisks even though plymouth is not > installed. > > Were there any other packages installed along with plymouth?
Seems it is part of systemd to switch behaviour when plymouth is available: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1432265/comments/9 - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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