Source: debian-installer Version: 20230607+deb12u1 Severity: normal Tags: a11y d-i
Dear Maintainer, I keep my hard drive encryption passphrase in the "second slot" of my YubiKey, so that I can use a long, random, secure encryption passphrase. The YubiKey impersonates a USB keyboard, and when I press its button for 2.5 seconds it simulates typing the passphrase followed by hitting the Enter key. On other installers where I use this approach, most notably the Ubuntu installer, when the YubiKey hits the entire on the first of the two passphrase entry fields, either it moves the cursor to the second field, or it tells me the two fields don't match and makes me enter the second one. The Debian installer, however, *erases the contents of the first passphrase field* when the YubiKey sends the Enter. This means that to configure my encryption passphrase for Debian to what's in my YubiKey, I had to: * Take out my phone. * Open my password manager. * Search for and find the entry where the passphrase is stored. * Make it visible in the password manager. * Laboriously type the 32-character random passphrase character by character, hoping that I don't make any mistakes, complicated by the fact that there are some ambiguous characters in it. * Repeat the feat a second time. What should take a few seconds instead takes several painstaking minutes. TLDR The Enter key should not clear the passphrase field that has already been entered. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
